Noriko Nozawa | The Plaid Portico

One more installment after this one of selected quilts from the exhibitions at Quilt Market Houston 2015. A wide variety of styles, I find them all either likable, interesting or intriguing.

Enjoy!

Tulip in Swing Style by Keiko Morita

Timelines by Betty Busby

Mysterious Letter by Noriko Nozawa

My Family by Nariko Kawashima

The Woman by Kyoko Ochiai

Spheres XLVII by Jane Frenke

River Stones by Karen Eckmeier

Ole by Hope Wilmarth

Out on a Limb by Thelma Bearden

Liberation by Rebecca Muir MacKellar

Kenophobia by Robbi Joy Elkow

Kan Oh Chi Rai-Prediction by Study the Past

Indigo in Years Go by Feng Meng

Grief by Barbara Jahn

Ghosts by Ruth Montalvo

Frustrated by Edith Bieri-Hanselmann

Farm Girl by Victori Findlay Wolfe and Karen McTavish

Discovery by Sally Collins

Challenge 9, Village Green by Alicia Merret

Challenge 9, Drawing by Misik Kim

Barbara’s Circle by Beth Nufer and Clem Buzick

I’m learning about my own aesthetic in the quilting medium just by observing which quilts I am drawn to when I cover quilt exhibitions. I just go around and take photos of the ones that draw me in and that I want to see more of and look at more closely. Most of the time what attracts me is the composition as a strong piece of abstract art (my first love). Other times it is the sparkling that happens in more traditional quilts that as I get closer seems like peeling an onion revealing layers of artistry and intrigue.

Then there is COLOR of course, the use of which is a big part of all quilts, but sometimes just by itself it acts like a magnet (color junkie that I am). And texture. Quilts are displayed at shows as 2D art, but by their nature they are sculptural and textural. The quilts I actually use are not only beautiful, but there is the comfort factor including the touch on my skin, and intimacy of proximity and the views from underneath and close-up. There is also always a sense that these have been made over a period of time by someone’s hands. The quilt becomes an object that has been formed by thousands of stitches, artistic decisions, and is imbued with all history of the fabric and material chosen to be part of it as well as all the hands that sew, cut, piece and quilt. I experience it all as very rich, sometime overwhelmingly so, but mostly its inspiring and comforting.

And without further ado, more quilts from the Quilt Exhibition at Quilt Market 2012 in Houston.