susiemonday.art.ideas

This innovative exhibit showcases a breathtaking collection of art cloth banners, both large and small art quilts, and carefully curated pieces from ten additional quilt artists: Deb Cashatt, Sue Sherman, Laurie Brainerd, Kit Vincent, Carolyn Skei, Sherri McCauley, Heather Pregger, Marianne Williamson, Diane Nuñez, and Susan Michael. Each work of art illustrates elements of the sensory alphabet: line, shape, color, texture, movement, rhythm, light, space, and rhythm. See examples and links to their work, biographies and artist statements on the pages of this site gallery.

CAROLYN SKEI

"Wild, Wild Plum"

26" x 23"

$1050.

Improvisational fused quilt. Machine embroidery and quilting.

BIOGRAPHY

North Texas artist Carolyn Skei has had multiple art quilts juried into traveling global exhibitions and into prestigious galleries like the Texas Quilt Museum, Visions Museum of Textile Arts (San Diego) and the Schweinfurth Art Center (Albany, New York). Her innovative pieces have won awards at the Dallas Quilt Show and at Form Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie. She has been a Textile Talk presenter for Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) and has taught workshops for a variety of art organizations.

Carolyn has been profiled in Quilting Arts magazine and Art Quilting Studio quarterly, and she has authored a number of articles about contemporary quilting. Her work features improvisational collage and experimental techniques of all kinds — most recently iPad exploration of her photographs.

A native Texan, Carolyn has lived and made art in states from east to west. Now retired from a long career as publications director at California State University, Fresno, she most recently edited Neil Sperry’s GARDENS magazine and his latest book, Lone Star Gardening. She holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and an M.A. from the University of Michigan.

LAURIE BRAINERD

39” X 40”

$5400

Artist Statement

My current body of work directly relates to my spiritual journey. It is my intention to work with uncomplicated methods that produce interesting and beautiful results. I want the process to be narrow enough to allow me to work deeply, but broad enough to allow for endless variety.

While the dye is applied intentionally, there is an allowing that occurs with this process, as it is far from precise. But it is working with surprises and “happy accidents” that allows my work to come alive.

Found fabric has also found a place in my work. It is a pragmatic resource as I balance day job and artwork and introduces another layer of narrative.

This body of work bridges the balance of control and allowing. Grids are a common symbol in my work, representing my desire for control and Yin energy. Circles represent the allowing and Yang energy. I use Line to illustrate connection—to Self, to Others, and to the Infinite.

Artist’s Biography

Laurie Brainerd is a fiber artist who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. Her work represents abstractions from her spiritual journey and love of color and texture.

While Laurie has been creative her whole life, she didn’t discover the Art of Quilting until her fourth decade. She was able to dedicate several years to full-time learning during an extended “career” break from accounting/finance. Currently, she balances full-time Day Job with Artisthood. She studios in a dedicated space in her home that she shares with her life partner and dogs.

She is often asked about the dichotomy of doing both analysis work and artwork. Her left- and right-brains are relatively in balance and so she can facilely go back and forth between the two. There is a creative edge to her analytical day-job work and a technical geekiness that is present in her artwork.

Brainerd studied art informally at the Southwest School of Art and in Jane Dunnewold’s Surface Design Mastery Program. Her work has been included in many books and journals dedicated to the Art of Quilting.

Brainerd’s work has been shown in exhibitions in Texas, Minnesota, and California. A tryptic of her work hangs predominately in the lobby of San Antonio’s Baptist Mission Trail Hospital. Her work was featured in the marketing materials for the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft—including a billboard size banner that hung outside the building. Brainerd has lectured and run a gallery, Fiber Artspace, in her Blue Star loft apartment.

LAURIE BRAINERD

20.5” x 20.5”

$500

Textile Painting

LAURIE BRAINERD

20.5” X 20.5”

Textile Painting

Artist Statement

My current body of work directly relates to my spiritual journey. It is my intention to work with uncomplicated methods that produce interesting and beautiful results. I want the process to be narrow enough to allow me to work deeply, but broad enough to allow for endless variety.

While the dye is applied intentionally, there is an allowing that occurs with this process, as it is far from precise. But it is working with surprises and “happy accidents” that allows my work to come alive.

Found fabric has also found a place in my work. It is a pragmatic resource as I balance day job and artwork and introduces another layer of narrative.

This body of work bridges the balance of control and allowing. Grids are a common symbol in my work, representing my desire for control and Yin energy. Circles represent the allowing and Yang energy. I use Line to illustrate connection—to Self, to Others, and to the Infinite.

DEB CASHATT

39” x 34”

Machine pieced and machine quilted

“Tribute to Saul’ pays homage to the visionary graphic designer Saul Bass, a true luminary who reshaped the visual landscape of the art and film industry. Inspired by the iconic color palette of Bass’s legendary poster for the movie “Anatomy of a Murder, I meticulously paced my stylized murderers and victims into a vortex of film clips and movie posters that melds his distinct aesthetic with my personal creative interpretation.

Bio:

For the past 20 years Deb Cashatt has been one half of the fiber art duo Pixleadies. In the midst of the Coronavirus shutdown, however, she also started creating her own work--making pieced quilts with graphic shapes. Combining the words “graphic” and “symbol,” Cashatt created the word “symbographic.” It is this word that has informed her solo work. Cashatt lives in Cameron Park, California. “I really like to travel and am fortunate to have friends who move to exotic places just so I can visit them,” she says. Memories of these travels, along with objects of everyday life, influence her choice of subject matter.

SUSIE MONDAY

42” x 32.5”

Stitched and fused fabric collage, machine and hand stitched

NFS

Private collection of Don Clausewitz and Jacob Bustamante

Part of a series of art inspired by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's Ode to the Tomato. Working on art while Mexico last summer I was enchanted by Neruda's poetry, especially his odes to ordinary objects.

SUSIE MONDAY

34” X 37.5”

Piece, applique, fused and machine stitched

$1500

This pice grew from an online course taught by Rosalie Dace about the painter Paul Klee. I used some of his iconic shapes and colors with my own sense of shape

Print, color and then design your own!

One of a series of videos created by Linda A. Cuellar

Textile on wooden panel

30” x 30” x 2”

$1200

All of these fabrics are off cuts of previous quilts — a journey through my work of the past few years.

Susie Monday

y32” x 30” x 1.5”

$900

The deeper greens of summer and the filled out layers of the live oaks, along with an imaginary orchard, have the sense of summer in Texas, where sunshine seems to grow from the ground as well as travel across the sky. Inspired by walking 100 K of the Camino Santiago.

Print, color and then design your own!

Susie Monday

41” x 69”

$4000

Working abstractly, the title often comes to me during the making. This piece, painted on my iPad with a simple child's app using shapes as "brushes," begged for size. An all-over pattern intensity of color and energy was the aim, but a bit later, while I was adding hand stitching and appliqué elements, a friend read aloud the children's book On the Day You Were Born by Debra Fraser. This line from the book resonated.

Susie Monday

30” x 30” x 2”

$1200

When you throw you signature iconic fabrics at a piece, they take on their own tone — this one includes personal symbols like the pomegranate, scraps of words and text and scraps of fabrics used in other work.

Susie Monday

30” x 32” x 1.5”

$900

Walking the Camino Santiago, there’s never really an end in sight, the road is always unfurling ahead. The pastures, fields and orchards of Galicia are unlike much of Spain, more like Ireland, which shares its heritage of Celts, bagpipes and rainy mists.

Surface designed and vintage, recycled fabrics with raw edge appliqué. Fused, machine and hand stitched.

Color video by Linda A. Cuellar

Center art: top Sherri L. McCauley and below, Self Portrait: Pain, Susie Monday

Kit Vincent

72” x 72”

$10,000

Working with cloth excites the explorer in me. My aim is to discover new expressions in art that feel contemporary but are rooted in the history and practice of quilting.

​I begin without expectation and allow the design to surface. I see cloth as material that can be shaped, stitched and designed to emphasize colour and texture the same way a painter will work with paint on a canvas.

​Making abstract art involves varying degrees of 'getting it right,' doing something new, perhaps even redesigning the composition. The variety of ways these elements can be mixed, matched and reinterpreted is mind-boggling and thrilling.

Kit Vincent

Tricolour White,

72 x 72"

$10,000

Mastery: Sustaining Momentum Exhibit

Dairy Barn Art Center 2016

Susie Monday

32.5” x 42”

NFS

From the private collection of Baron Don Clausewitz and Jacob Bustamente, Esq.

One of a series of work based on the poem by Pablo Neruda “Ode to the Tomato.” Used digital design with my iPad for composition, but actually based this piece on a small painting I made.

Susie Monday

35” x 45”

$1200

Another in the series of art quilts inspired by Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Tomato.”

Susie Monday

30” x 50”

$1800

Print a copy to color with your own choices! Then design your own page of color.

Texture video by Linda A. Cuellar

Art quilts by Sue Sherman and Susie Monday

SUSIE MONDAY

An ongoing series of art quilts using this agave photo, altered and added to with images from Big Bend travel.

Susie Monday

72” x 40”

NFS

From the private collection of Baron Don Clausewitz and Jacob Bustamante.

Sue Sherman

52” x 66”

$4000

At the Polls

I saw a post suggesting that the most effective thing we individuals can do to fight climate change is to use our vote, and it seemed that penguins may be happy to show us how this is done. The trick was to depict the voting process without politics entering into it.

The quilt is made by applying thickened dye to white cotton with paintbrushes, and thread painting with trilobal polyester threads. For an element of fun, metallic paints and shiny metallic threads were used for the precious golden ballot stones.

Sue Sherman

12” x 12”

Sue Sherman

12” x 12”

Artist Statement

My fabric creations connect me to the spectacular places and wildlife I have seen in my travels.

I aim to give the animal kingdom a voice, by transforming white cotton into lifelike creatures through many hours of precise painting with dyes and thread. I am passionate about protecting earth’s creatures along with their habitats, and hope my work will inspire viewers to share my sense of urgency around this message.

For further information about my work, please visit www.sueshermanquilts.com or check out my work on Instagram.com/sueshermanquilts or Facebook.com/sueshermanquilts .

Print a copy to color with your own choices! Then design your own page of color.

Susie Monday

54” x 32”

$2800

A piece created during the pandemic using “daily patches,” blocks created to show the path through all the confusion and disruption.

Susie Monday

54” x 37”

$1800

Another piece made with the daily stitched "patches" created during the lockdown of the early days of the Pandemic. This one came to me as I looked at photos of New York during the lockdown, and even as the city quieted and stilled, the energy, window lights, and music off the balconies seemed to celebrate humankind and our abilities to adapt and shine.

Susie Monday

These daily patches made during the fist 6 weeks of the pandemic lockdown, chronicle the daily data bout deaths (Xs), Covid infections and recoveries (white Xs).

A forget fire leaves a strange beauty in its path, especially among the mountains. This piece reminds me of the hillsides scarred by fire near Manzana, NM.

Print a copy to color with your own choices! Then design your own page of textures.

Susie Monday

40” x 40”

NFS: In private collection

Diane G. Nuñez

60” x 44’ x 3”

$3200

Our world is constantly changing.  Bright, vibrant colors and movement are predominant elements of this repetitive, geometric grid-like structure.  Light shifts throughout the day. The work is designed to change, dependent on the light and casting shadows.  Interact with it; slight movement causes the work to move changing. The work is not stagnant.  Space can remain constant or not, light evolves and forms contrasts in relation to light, shadow, movement, and how the viewer interacts with the piece.  You can move along with it.

Diane Nuñez

Susan R. Michael

21”.5” x 36.5”

$770

I make pieces in the tradition of quilt making. Due to the nature of using a straight edge ruler to cut pieces of fabric my work is comprised mostly of squares and rectangles. When I am designing a piece, I start with actual fabric pieces and arrange them in relation to each other. I retain cut off pieces and use them in subsequent works. I am interested in creating works that contain likeness and variation.  I approach the work chronologically, in terms that the work is informed by the previous work through the carry carry-over of specific fabrics, forms, and colors. Motifs occur spontaneously and can be passed on to another work.

I find that the work is greatly affected by the determination of its size. The use of print fabrics and the size of components in the composition must be in consideration of the format and hold a sense of balance. I feel that a successful composition has elements that could inspire an entirely new work.

Susie Monday

32” x 30” x 1.5”

Textile on wooden frame

$900

Walking the Camino Santiago, there’s never really an end in sight, the road is always unfurling ahead. The pastures, fields and orchards of Galicia are unlike much of Spain, more like Ireland, which shares its heritage of Celts, bagpipes and rainy mists.

Surface designed and vintage, recycled fabrics with raw edge appliqué. Fused, machine and hand stitched.

Susan R. Michael

12” x 12”

$350

Sherri Lipman McCauley

45” x 54”

$3500

I like to work extemporaneously and in the abstract. With the start of a gestural stroke of paint or dye, my initial design is established. The serendipity of the medium dictates my direction. With the addition of geometrics and color, my design is in motion.

My work is the result of an intuitive action of flinging paint on fabric. My process is defined through the application of applying paint with syringes, squirt bottles, brushes and found objects on fabric. I typically begin with black paint on a white fabric background. The process is an important aspect to my design. I tend to think outside the box. My tools of choice include fabric reactive dyes, paints, and a host of threads.

I like to color outside the lines. The serendipity of the paint landing on the fabric dictates the direction of my initial design. Sometimes the impromptu line is enough to ground my design. At other times, the challenge of incorporating a line of paint into a cohesive design is a challenge that I enjoy.

Through the application of paint, shape manipulation and machine and hand stitching, I create my fiber art. My art may appear abstract at first glance, but the viewer is invited to examine the work closer to see the subject revealed.

Marianne Williamson

7” x 54”

$4000

Life is always changing in one way or another and the world around me is always moving, swaying in the breeze, or changed by light.

Light, and movement are the main subjects that I have been portraying all my life.

Susie Monday

40” x 60”

$2500

Textile collage with screen printing

Work by Marianne Williamson

Cultural Activities Center, Temple

From l to r: Moving Along, Swirling, Spring Melt, Fly Over

Marianne Williamson

43” x 53”

$4000

Light, and movement are the main subjects that I have been portraying all my life…

Even water reflections involve light on water. Light under the sea or shining down through water to the streambed below, it all is a recurring theme.

Marianne Williamson

34” by 59”

$4800

Marianne Williamson

45” x 66”

$5000

Susie Monday

58” x 58.5”

$4000

Susie Monday

Coloring page for you, children and classrooms. Print and use, then design your own!

Heather Pregger

33” x 35”

$1100

Carolyn Skei

30” x 30”

NFS

Carolyn Skei

27” by 66”

$1100

Print a copy to color with your own choices! Then design your own page of sound ideas.