Complex Pattern: The Quilts of Ellen Oppenheimer
Monday, September 13, 2004 to Friday, October 8, 2004
Between September 15 and 19, 2004, Oakland, CA-based quilt artist Ellen Oppenheimer will visit the University of Nebraska – Lincoln campus in conjunction with the exhibition “Complex Pattern: The Quilts of Ellen Oppenheimer” in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery (September 13 – October 8). The exhibition and the artist’s presentations, made possible in part by the Dept.
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John Garrett, Life in Progress
Monday, September 8, 2003 to Friday, October 17, 2003
John Garrett of Albuquerque, New Mexico interlaces such unlikely materials as brushed and painted aluminum and hardware cloth in a vessel and makes nets of metal, plastic, and glass. Process is central to this work where the artist explores new and complex weaving processes and experiments with the aging and decomposition of found metals. The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery will feature Garrett’s work in a solo exhibition September 8-October 17, 2003.
Radka Donnell: The Work of Touch
Friday, February 7, 2003 to Friday, March 7, 2003
Radka Donnell’s quilts break many of the rules that have governed how quilts were designed and made for much of the last two hundred years and longer. They pay little heed to grids or to symmetry. Their colors are riotously and impulsively juxtaposed. They eschew fine stitching in favor of the functional and the no-nonsense. They avoid the familiar small-scale, genteel prints normally associated with quilts in favor of large-scale, graphically assertive patterns. The bold surfaces of these fabrics compete with and against one another, in frenetic dances of exaggerated visual energy.
The Fragmented Surface: Color, Light, Texture
Friday, March 8, 2002 to Tuesday, April 30, 2002
University of Nebraska Textiles, Clothing and Design Department will be enriched with the opening of Tim Harding's textile exhibition Fragmented Surface: Color, Light and Texture in the Robert Hillestad Gallery opening on March 8, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. Harding is a highly recognized fiber artist known for using bits of colored fabric as an impressionist painter uses brush strokes. When Harding takes a blade to his fabrics the outcome is dazzling color intermixed with what seem to be shadows and particles of light.
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