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Tapestry Topics Online
A Quarterly Review of Tapestry Art Today
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page 5
Spring 2006, Vol 32 No 1
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"Softscapes and Hardscapes" by Elyse Koren-Cammara
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Kuchma's "Wing Right" divided the space with one sentry-like gesture. The soft once again joins the hard.
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above: Lialia Kuchma, Wing Right, 96" high.
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[Lisa Harris’s] "graphically strong and iconic in stature" forms, literally transform to "Grain Silos" and "Grain Elevator" vessels, teapots. The irony is that Harris's work is a subtle reflection of McGinn's current efforts. The Grain Elevator has taken on a new meaning of time, place, history, and memory. McGinn's monumental tapestry "Corrugated Futures 1: The Long Hedge" examines the iconography of the everyday.
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above: Anne McGinn, Corrugated Futures 1: The Long Hedge, 72" x 66". Linen warp, wool weft.
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We were next met with the musical blast of Anne McGinn's "Pythagorean" trio. Based on the idea of sound waves, McGinn's "temperament" is no "jive." These weavings, done without a cartoon, burst, bend and shout with joy, music and math at their most energetic.
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above: Anne McGinn, Pythagorean Temperament Jive, Baby, with Coleus Overtones 1, 5" x 11". Linen warp, wool weft tapestry.
below: Anne McGinn, Pythagorean Temperament Jive, Baby, with Coleus Overtones 2, 5" x 11". Linen warp, wool weft tapestry.
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Lialia Kuchma's "Blue Fruit" commanded the entire back wall of the gallery. Fruit flows into space; color resonates and vibrates in the viewer's mind and spirit. All is one.
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above: Lialia Kuchma, Blue Fruit
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Finally, the exhibit is rounded out with the extraordinary technique and use of color in Odette Brabec's diptychs, "Flights of Fancy" and "Oasis". Brabec's nature-based works are both fanciful and a "well-spring that evokes the artist's memory."
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above: Odette Brabec, Flights of Fancy, diptych, 24" x 24" each.
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All in all, "Softscapes & Hardscapes" was a tribute to the concept of mixing media and metaphor. The overall beauty, contrast, contour, texture of the work was truly astounding. This exhibition worked on all levels.
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