четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

QUILTING WITH A BLOWTORCH

Zella Bardsley brings her mixed-metals quilts to Art Source Gallery

This First Thursday, Zella Bardsley will be commemorating a traditionally female art form of quilting in her own feminist way: with metal and a blowtorch. Her patterns aren't those handed down from generation to generation, they are instead her "own, new definition of the metal quilt." Even though Bardsley's definition varies from the norm, she maintains many of the typical quilting conventions such as weaving her stories of joy, pain, gossip and laughter into her works. She also uses castaways, combines new pieces and says she "pushes the quilt form to suit her own desire to construct pieces that she finds …

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