Luanne Rimel

Blue Tarp / Manhattan, Digital Print Photography on Silk with Hand Stitching

2019

Luanne Rimel is an artist, curator, instructor, and currently the Director of Education Programs at Craft Alliance Art Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work is layered with historical dialog and tactile intrigue through both technique and concept. Rimel prints her original photography on repurposed flour-sack cloths using a wide-format inkjet printer. Detailed sections of the image are created and layered, collaged and hand-stitched onto the cloth, referencing earlier domestic practices of mending and repair, reuse and repurposing. The delicate, repetitive hand quilting across the surface creates shadows and textures and alludes to the marking of time. Her photographic imagery and textile work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including Japan, China and Korea, and is in many private and corporate collections. Rimel’s work is traveling in Quilt National 2013 and was in QN 2011. She has exhibited in 2012, 2013 and 2014 Smithsonian Craft Shows. Her work will also be included in the new book, Art Quilts of the Midwest, published by the University of Iowa Press. Other exhibitions include a solo exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Missouri, Art Quilt Elements, Wayne, Pennsylvania, and the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois. Rimel received an MFA in Fibers from Southern Illinois University and has taught numerous workshops and classes around the country.