In these mixed media works on paper, I employ an abstract quilting technique. Leftover scraps and fragments from other projects are woven into new patterns and uses. Traditionally marginalized as women’s craft, quilts are resonant metaphors for my current art practice, which combines the many media I’ve used over many years of artmaking.   I was inspired to use quilt patterns after seeing a 20th-century abstraction exhibition in Richmond, Virginia, where the curators had included several works by the Gee’s Bend quilters. To me, their fabric works were the most striking in the show, and I decided to explore that format in my own artmaking. 

Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, textiles - all mediums I’ve used over the years – come together as collage works. I also explore diverse subject matter, including women’s issues, autobiography, conceptual, historical, and poetic content.  Each work tells a different story. Some elements come from discarded digital prints, others from monoprints and silkscreens. Using embellished papers, stencils, transfers, and other mixed-media techniques, I create these works on paper in my studio. Because this work is large, I include small “easter eggs” for viewers to discover as they study the surfaces more closely.