Smooth Tower

Made in 2013 by Naomi Clark Wool blanket with dye, paint and appliqué Naomi Clark’s Quilt Paintings are made from vintage camp blankets culled f...

Made in 2013 by Naomi Clark Wool blanket with dye, paint and appliqué Naomi Clark’s Quilt Paintings are made from vintage camp blankets culled f...

Under the blanket project, Naomi Clark creates what she titles Quilt Paintings. She breathes new life into old wool and cotton camping blankets culled from EBay, flea markets and gar...

Made in 2009 by Naomi Clark Wool blanket with paint and appliqué Naomi Clark’s Quilt Paintings are made from vintage camp blankets culled from E...

Chumbes blanket 1 by Mae Engelgeer Materials: 100% cotton. Technique: hand-woven in Colombia. Dimensions: W 200 x H 120 cm Available in colors: blue/banana/silver and terracot...

By taking ordinary pieces of cotton and transforming them into forceful collages of luminous color, contemporary textile artist Gerri Spilka brings together disparate elements of quilting, modern abstraction, and human interaction to re-imagine work of traditional sewing into a visual narrative on the collective experience. Spilka’s work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. It is held in private collections and in public collections including the International Quilt Museum...

The Tower is a minimalist work with geometric elements and color balance. It is acrylic on cotton canvas and with casein glue treatment. The work is signed on the front and back. ...

By taking ordinary pieces of cotton and transforming them into forceful collages of luminous color, contemporary textile artist Gerri Spilka brings together disparate elements of quilting, modern abstraction, and human interaction to re-imagine work of traditional sewing into a visual narrative on the collective experience. Spilka’s works bypass the purely domestic nature of typical quilting most remarkably for their color, scale, and movement. With some pieces as large as 95 inches, her works often have the presence of murals, or a modernist idea of a grand tapestry. While formally a structural component holding the layers together, the quilting stitches also establish subtle dimension and texture that can be transformed with the use of contrasting thread colors or directional shifts. Spilka hand dyes her fabrics in an antique ringer...