Marni Goldshlag
Marni Goldshlag
I work in fabric because I love the tactile sensations I get when I handle it. I also don’t have to literally mix a palette of colors, they exist in my stash. I do sometimes create my own colors by dyeing or painting my fabric, but I don’t have to do that if I don’t want to; I can buy commercially available fabric. I began working with quilts, first bed quilts and then art quilts. Sometime around 2001 my quilts started getting sheer fabrics added on to the tops. Eventually, I thought I’d try to use only sheers and, since 2002, that’s the direction my work has taken. Now that my work is almost exclusively sheer fabrics I find myself creating colors through the transparency of the fabrics. This is a new and fun aspect to my work.
My pieces grow organically. I rarely preplan them. Sometimes they contain realistic elements and other times they are quite abstract. The work itself dictates to my hands how the fabric should be cut and stitched. These daysmy pieces are completely handstitched. The stitching is a kind of meditation for me. My work is often informed by the landscape, both the physical outer landscape and the psychological inner one.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo and Twoperson
Shows
· “Sheer Delight”, The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist (2009)
· “Sheer Delight”, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, CT (2008)
· “Sheer Delight”, CCB Gallery, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC (2006)
· Baba Ghannouj, Durham, NC (20052006)
· Mad Hatter Cafe & Bakery, Durham, NC (2005)
· Manbites Dog Theatre, Durham, NC (2005)
· "Full Circle and Then Some", Community Church of Chapel Hill (2002)
· SAS Institute A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark (2002)
· Twoperson
show, Chapel Hill Town Hall, Chapel Hill, NC (2001)
· Twoperson
show, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC (1999)
· CCB Gallery, Durham Art Guild, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC (1999)
Invitational
· Winter Show, Green Hill Gallery, Greensboto, NC (2009)
· Winter Show, Green Hill Gallery, Greensboro, NC (2006)
· Regional SAQA Artists Show, Side Street Gallery, Pittsboro, NC (2005)
· Art Quilts, The Clayton Center, Clayton, NC (2004)
· Crossing Boundaries, Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO (2004)
Group Juried
· Durham Art Guild members’ show (2007)
· Open Hearts/Helping Hands Phase 3, Lowell, MA (2006)
· Fiber Fever, The Foundry Arts Center, St. Charles, MO (2006)
· Studio Montclair’s National Juried Exhibition, Connections, Wm. Patterson Univ., Wayne, NJ (2006)
· Considering Quilts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (2006)
· The Art & Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI (2006)
· Art Quilts X, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ (2006)
· Art Quilts: Contemporary Traditions, Page Walker Art & History Center, Cary, NC (2005)
· The Art & Soul of Quilting, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI (2005)
· Art Quilts: Elements, Page Walker Art & History Center, Cary, NC (2004)
· Second Annual Jewish Art Exhibit, Rozenzweig Gallery, Durham, NC (2004)
· Uncommon Threads, Arkansas Historic Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas (2004)
· Expressions of a Lifetime, Lexington, KY Fine Arts League, Lexington, KY (2004)
· Connecting Threads, Cultural Arts Center, Glen Allen, VA (2004)
· Art Quilts: Sew What’s New, CraddockTerry
Gallery, Lynchburg, VA (2004)
· Through Women’s Eyes, The Women’s Center, Chapel Hill, NC (2003)
· Expressions of a Lifetime, Lexington, KY Fine Arts League (2003)
· Uptown Quilts, Westerville, OH (2003)
· Durham Art Guild members show, Durham, NC (2003)
· Small Works, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2003)
· I Remember Mama, special exhibit at International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX (2003)
· Fayetteville Museum of Art's 30 th Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Fayetteville, NC (2002)
· Quilt 21, Lowell MA (2002)
· Art Quilts: Narrative Form, Page Walker Center, Cary, NC and International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX (2001)
Publications
· Create Your Own HandPrinted
Cloth, by Rayna Gillman, C&T Publishing, 2008
· Studio Montclair’s “Connections” cd catalog, 2006
· I Remember Mama ,3year
catalog, 2005
· Popular Patchwork: Britain’s Best Loved Magazine for Today’s Quilter, August 2003
· Fayetteville Museum of Art's 30 th Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists catalog, 2002
· Quilt 21 catalog, 2002
· Pediatric Nursing, Vol. 27, Number 1, January/February 2001