My Art
The technique I use to make this fiber art is called free motion embroidery. It is done with a sewing machine using various colored thread. The finished face is always a surprise since it is free form done without any previous drawing. This art is a combination of embroidery, which I have always enjoyed, and drawing with a passion. It also entails my love of texture and faces.
It brings me back to my childhood, sewing with my talented mother, a milliner, who instilled in me a love of all forms of art. She saw images in everything, no matter how mundane, including Aunt Jessie’s face in the pot of vegetable soup as the carrots floated over the celery.
I use swatches, remnants and found fabrics in my work. I like to recycle neckties ties from all time periods, the flashier the better. This brings back memories of Uncle Al, who loved big splashy ones. The faces I create are one of a kind. As I draw on my sewing machine I am thinking of my wonderful Aunt Jessie. Aunt Frances, Aunt Lily, Aunt Rose, Aunt Hattie, Aunt Estelle and always my dear mother Cele.
Art Education
- Summer TeacherInstitute Brooklyn Museum
- American Craft Museum
- Art Student League
- Michael Burban
- Philip Lawrence
- Sherrod Sylive Convey
- Larry Poons
- Bruce Dorfman
- Michael Ponce de Lean
- Ernest Chichloe
- Knox Martin
Fiber Art Shows
- Pen and Brush
- Historial Society Brooklyn, NY
- Holland Tunnel Gallery, NY
- Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Kansas
- Kingsborough College, Brooklyn, NY
Awards
- Art Student League Class Show honorable mention
- Pen and Brush blue dot merit award