opened at the Chesapeake Gallery at Harford Community College on June 5, 2014. I was out in Bel Air the week before finishing up new work, installing the show and visiting with my dear friend Jeff Ball. Jeff is the art historian at the college and curates one exhibition a year for the gallery. This year he was kind enough to ask me. The exhibition includes nine dolls and three new two-dimensional pieces. I worked right up until the last minute, but it was worth it. I'm really pleased with how it all came together. Remember this?
This was a little study I was working on along with the new dolls. There are two new ones that I am beyond excited about.
Each of these is approximately 18x27 inches.
All three are made with vintage sewing pattern paper fused to interfacing. In both of the larger works, I cut the original piece into parts and sewed it back together. You can see the top stitching in red. Then I sewed on groups of eye closures and worked stitches of varying lengths and color through the eyes and back again. Finally, I played with the measuring tape motif, much like with the dolls. I can't begin to describe how much fun these are to make, and all of the ideas they have inspired in future works. They are unframed and hang from the wall with needles at their corners.