Spills & Coverings OPENING NIGHT @ Downtown Pres Gallery

Tipping, Walls Crumble, Her Tattered Covering, Covering

Memphis Solo Exhibition : Spills and Coverings

June 24-July 22

Photos from the Opening Reception on June 24

during the Memphis South Main Trolley Night & Art Walk

Mending the Gray, Tear, Moving the Pieces, Knots Unraveling

Tear
24" X 30"
a new piece (in a series of framed works on paper within the series Spills and Coverings)

Tipping
the newest piece in the show SOLD on OPENING NIGHT!

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Memphis Opening Reception THIS FRIDAY: Spills and Coverings

Memphis Solo Exhibition : Spills and Coverings

June 24-July 22

Her Tattered Covering and Walls Crumble

Opening Reception THIS FRIDAY: June 24, 6:00-9:00

during the Memphis South Main Trolley Night & Art Walk

Her Tattered Covering Detail

Memphis South Main Gallery District
Downtown Pres Gallery
502 South Main, Memphis, TN 38103

(right across the street from Bluff City Coffee)

Moving the Pieces

GALLERY HOURS: Tues-Fri 8:30-5:00 [or call 901-270-1973]

Moving the Pieces detail

Tear ( a new work on paper)

Meet the Artist

Join us FRIDAY for the OPENING RECEPTION & meet Deeann or reconnect with her to learn more about her new series. You can really take in the layers and tactile qualities of the delicate machine embroidery, laces, and fabrics when you see these works in person.

Tugging, Clinging, Falling Apart (triptych)

Knots Unraveling

About Spills and Coverings

Deeann's new paintings combine fabric, machine embroidery, and fiber techniques that disrupt and distort the surfaces, which become their own organic forms of sculptural painting.

Read Deeann's Artist Statement and View the paintings from Spills and Coverings.

Pieced Together

The show includes FIVE new paintings from the series!
I hope to see you at the opening this weekend if you live in the Memphis area.

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accepted into Metro Montage XI

Two of my pieces were accepted into a show in the Metro Atlanta area! and I am so excited because this is the first Atlanta area show I will be in since moving to Atlanta...

Metro Montage XI : Annual Juried Exhibition of Artists

at Marietta Cobb Museum of Art

Marietta, GA

July 16 – September 11 in Galleries 1-3

No Longer Bound and Rushing Over

OPENING RECEPTION July 16
more information to come...

Fiber Plus 2011 Exhibit Photos

Fiber Plus Exhibition:
A National Juried Exhibition of 21st Century Fiber with Mixed Media

March 20-May 18, 2011
at Blue Door Gallery in Yonkers, NY

Photos by Arlé Sklar-Weinstein, courtesy of Blue Door Gallery

Photos by Arlé Sklar-Weinstein, courtesy of Blue Door Gallery

Photos by Arlé Sklar-Weinstein, courtesy of Blue Door Gallery

my piece in the show:

Holding It Together

from my Spills and Coverings Series

Spills and Coverings Series Statement:

Coverings are pieced together to control what appears on the surface. But they are made up of tattered pieces, barely joined by a thread suspending the ever-expanding gaps that form within. Controlling this facade is an illusion and the bare emptiness underneath lingers in the shadows. Tension builds to a breaking point and coverings are worn down. Cover stories crumble and walls disintegrate like brittle leaves as reality spills though.

Vulnerability appears in accidental spills. The fragile pieces are unveiled and the hidden, intimate parts unfold like lace as the spill reveals brokenness and the delicate threads lose shape and fall apart. There is freedom in a spill rushing over and flooding in, leaving marks that influence and ruin what once was in the layers beneath the surface. It breaks the normal boundaries, unable to contain what was stirring within.

Fantastic Fibers 2011 Exhibit Photos

Fantastic Fibers:
An International Juried Art Exhibition

at the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, KY
April 2-30, 2011

(photo by Michael Crouse, courtesy of Yeiser Art Center)

(photo by Michael Crouse, courtesy of Yeiser Art Center)

(photo by Michael Crouse, courtesy of Yeiser Art Center)

my piece in the show:

Surrender, Courage, Desperation, and Vulnerability

Surrender

but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned,all she had to live on

Courage

she came up behind Him and touched the fringe of his garment

Desperation

“woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?” She said, “no one”

Vulnerability

she knelt behind him, weeping, with her tears falling on his feet,

wiping them with her hair

A common thread ties women throughout history together and this cohesion has been the source of my inspiration. In a world where so many things are relative and society focuses on individualism, I like to see how broader histories can still speak about present conditions. I am currently focusing on women from the Bible in my paintings by focusing on one moment of their story and examining how I can relate to it. People today deal with the same issues of abandonment, guilt, doubt, or insecurity and can look to historical figures that lead captivating lives for guidance.

The quilt pieces together four women of faith from the New Testament whose stories were recorded without their names. They each had an encounter with Christ that left an impression in history about how women were to be treated with significance. Each of them had been condemned by society because of their poverty, disease, gender or promiscuity, but He accepted them by caring for their personal needs and offering their hurting hearts grace and healing. He stood up for a hopeless woman and reminded us to show compassion and give others a second chance. In a time when women were restricted by a patriarchal society, Jesus singled them out and used them as examples for the way we should live—the willingness to give to others even when we feel empty, the boldness to reach out of our isolation when we know we need help, and that it is okay to be vulnerable when we need to spill out everything we have been holding inside. They embody beauty in their surrender, courage, desperation, and vulnerability.