She was born in
New York City.[1] As a student, she studied art history at
Barnard College (class of 1978) and has lived and traveled in Paris, Florence, and Rome. In 1981, she moved to
Kameoka, Japan, to study with master weaver
Tomohiko Inoue, living in the religious heart of the Oomoto Foundation. She returned to New York in 1982 and continued to weave on her Japanese tsumugi silk kimono looms.[2]
She shows her woven silk
ikat paintings on both coasts,[3] and is collected by the
Art Institute of Chicago,[4]Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and by private collectors. Her work has been published in numerous magazines including Hali Magazine, FiberArts, Surface Design Journal and American Craft. She is a member of the
Textile Society of America, Friends of Fiber Arts International, the Surface Design Association and the Textile Arts Alliance of Santa Fe.
Exhibitions
2012:
New Woven Works, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
San Francisco Art Fair, Linda Fairchild Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
Sourcing the Museum, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC[5]
New Works, Gail Martin, New York City
2011:
Sleight of Hand, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
She was born in
New York City.[1] As a student, she studied art history at
Barnard College (class of 1978) and has lived and traveled in Paris, Florence, and Rome. In 1981, she moved to
Kameoka, Japan, to study with master weaver
Tomohiko Inoue, living in the religious heart of the Oomoto Foundation. She returned to New York in 1982 and continued to weave on her Japanese tsumugi silk kimono looms.[2]
She shows her woven silk
ikat paintings on both coasts,[3] and is collected by the
Art Institute of Chicago,[4]Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and by private collectors. Her work has been published in numerous magazines including Hali Magazine, FiberArts, Surface Design Journal and American Craft. She is a member of the
Textile Society of America, Friends of Fiber Arts International, the Surface Design Association and the Textile Arts Alliance of Santa Fe.
Exhibitions
2012:
New Woven Works, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
San Francisco Art Fair, Linda Fairchild Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
Sourcing the Museum, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC[5]
New Works, Gail Martin, New York City
2011:
Sleight of Hand, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado