Thursday, July 31, 2025

Printed and Stitched William D. Cannon Gallery

 by Patricia Frischer


Barbara Poole - Intertwining Branches (detail)

Printed & Stitched is North County fiber and print exhibition at William D. Cannon Gallery in Carlsbad on view until Oct 18th. It features  recent works from members of the California Society of Printmakers and Studio Art Quilt Associates and is curated by Christine S. Aaron. It is a travelling exhibition which is amongst many of the fiber shows now on view in the San Diego Region.*

This show’s theme brings together printed materials mainly on paper and fabric with sewn elements. It is broad enough to include piece for all tastes. It brings to mind the act of collecting because as you walk through the show it is important to choose the works you are attracted to and think about why that is. Basically, collecting is all about making decisions. For some us collecting marbles was our first experience of having to choose which of our possession to keep and which to trade. The choice below is my personal preference. Yes, it comes from someone that see lots and lots of art and has developed criteria, but it is still personal and your choices are just as valid for you. 


Barbara Poole - Intertwining Branches
You can't help but admire the technique drawing skill of this complex work,
but the little red and blue stitched lines make it personal. 

Rozanne Hermelyn Di Silvestro - Unraveled
A gesture drawing in string, white against black, on a
lime green wall is simple but amazingly striking.

Bethia G. Stone - Looking Beyond the Rain
This works takes me right back to my love of Japanese woodcut prints. A simple line
or in this case stitch conveys so much moisture.

Judith Content - Ragamuffin Series: Vortex Suite
These delightful mounds of fabric with embellished
 tops are actually set in an old 
muffin tin, cut to size.

Robynn Smith - Strata
The experience of  visits to a volcano site is interpreted in paper layers.


Zwia Lipkin - 145 Jaffa St. 
My husband's choice  of this workmade me look closely at fabricators workshop, with the tools
and more importantly to me the subtle shading of the dyed fabric.
  

Zwia Lipkin - 145 Jaffa St. (detail)

Denise Oyama Miller - Outcropping
This image drew back  as it was like seeing a boulder on drugs, heightened. reality. But look at it from a distance, as the mystery is revealed as you get close up.


Overview of the exhibition

Printed & Stitched
William D. Cannon Gallery
1775 Dove Ln, Carlsbad, CA 92011
Tuesday-Thursday: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Friday: 12 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Saturday: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

*Visions Museum of Textile Art presents Laura Foster Nicholson: Human AffectsWe Are Voices of Other Voices and INTIKA Men in Textiles all until October 4. 
The Space Between: Texture Studies by Denja Harris from June 28 to October 12, and Fabulous Fiber , July 26–November 2 both at the Oceanside Museum of Art




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