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The galleries that he works with have works of his for show:
[go ask them, they love it]
Jan Larsen Art Gallery
63 Pearl St
Brooklyn NY 11201
360SEE Gallery
1924 N. Damen Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
He has a few pieces in SF with a group called Art Larking.
They showcase monthly exhibitions of multidisciplinary work,
including dance, music, art and now quilts.
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9.11.09 – 11.1.09
Opens 9.11.09 6-9pm
Quilted Portraits & Stitched Scenes
featuring work by Luke Haynes
Gillian Bates, & Alexandra Walters
360SEE Gallery
1924 N. Damen Avenue Chicago, IL 60647
Quilted Portraits & Stitched Scenes is the first exhibition at 360SEE to feature fabric and fiber art work.
While fiber art is often abstract and can feel inaccessible to many, this exhibition strives to show amazingly well executed fabric pieces that are approachable both in subject matter (portraits, scenes, and the depiction of representational objects) and in presentation (pieces stretched like paintings or pinned to the wall).
The exhibition will feature (6) wall hanging portrait quilts by, practicing architect and fine art quilter, Luke Haynes.
Subverting the traditional quilting form by integrating modern concepts, Haynes’ art transforms the comfortably familiar into the visually evocative.
The large Haynes’ quilts will be joined by stitched pieces by Alexandra Walters and Gillian Bates.
Montana via Kansas City based artist Alexandra (Alex) Walters, explores the identity of illness and the promises of drug marketing from the perspective of a military wife and mother with her sewn series of (5) perscriptions piece titled The Promise of Pills. These “painterly” stitched pills and bottles done in silk, cotton, and rayon floss evoke the promised mood altering result of each medicine with a well chosen found fabric background.
English artist Gillian Bates will round out the exhibition with (3) illustrative feeling works comprised of stitched line drawings of people and scenes colored in with scrap fabrics on canvas.
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For information on all previous exhibitions contact the artist.
