2016 Solo Shows Part 2: Artwork – World of Threads Festival

Solo Shows: Part 2

2016 Exhibition: Artwork

With this exhibit we entered a world where variety, innovation and sustained vision had the upper hand. Featuring the work of 19 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.

Artists in Solo Shows Part 2:

Katia Bulbenko, Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Roxanna Kantarjian, Frances Keay, Lindsey Marshall, Hannah P Rotchild and Gerri Spilka.

Photography by Gareth Bate

Artwork

Backstage

Opening

Gerri Spilka

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Installation view: Gerri Spilka, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Gerri Spilka, Interactions #28, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016. Cotton commercial and hand-dyed fabric, cotton and wool batting. Machine pieced quilt designed and machine pieced by Gerri Spilka; quilting is denoted by Gerri Spilka; machine quilting by Marina Baudoin.

Gerri Spilka, Interactions #26, Pairing, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016. Cotton commercial and hand-dyed fabric, cotton and wool batting. Machine pieced quilt designed and machine pieced by Gerri Spilka; quilting is denoted by Gerri Spilka; machine quilting by Marina Baudoin.

Gerri Spilka, Interactions, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016. Cotton commercial and hand-dyed fabric, cotton and wool batting. Machine pieced quilt designed and machine pieced by Gerri Spilka; quilting is denoted by Gerri Spilka; machine quilting by Marina Baudoin.

Gerri Spilka, Interactions #23, Sonambulance, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016. Cotton commercial and hand-dyed fabric, cotton and wool batting. Machine pieced quilt designed and machine pieced by Gerri Spilka; quilting is denoted by Gerri Spilka; machine quilting by Marina Baudoin.

Gerri Spilka, Interactions #11, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016. Cotton commercial and hand-dyed fabric, cotton and wool batting. Machine pieced quilt designed and machine pieced by Gerri Spilka; quilting is denoted by Gerri Spilka; machine quilting by Marina Baudoin.

Gerri Spilka, Interactions #27: Head to Head, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016. Cotton commercial and hand-dyed fabric, cotton and wool batting. Machine pieced quilt designed and machine pieced by Gerri Spilka; quilting is denoted by Gerri Spilka; machine quilting by Marina Baudoin.

Curators

Canada: Ontario: Toronto: Gareth Bate

Canada: Ontario: Oakville: Dawne Rudman

Artists

Canada: Ontario: Ancaster: Hana Pinthus Rotchild, Toronto: Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Roxanna Kantarjian.
England: County Durham: Durham: Frances Keay, Shopshire: Shrewsbury: Lindsey Marshall.
USA: New Jersey: Weehawken: Katia Bulbenko. Pennsylvania: Philadelphia: Gerri Spilka.

Katia Bulbenko

Weehawken, New Jersey, USA

Katia Bulbenko, Wink, World of Threads Festival 2016. Acrylic on canvas, acrylic on wood, silk dyes on silk, machine stitching, hand sewn glass beads. Technique: painted and sewn assemblage. Mounted on stretchers.

Katia Bulbenko, Zephyr, World of Threads Festival 2016. Acrylic on canvas, acrylic on wood, silk dyes on silk. Technique: painted assemblage. Mounted on stretchers.

Katia Bulbenko, Lush, World of Threads Festival 2016. Acrylic on canvas, acrylic on wood, silk dyes on silk. Technique: painted assemblage. Canvas mounted on stretchers.

Katia Bulbenko, Glade, World of Threads Festival 2016. Acrylic on canvas, acrylic on wood, silk dyes on silk, inkjet print on silk. Technique: painted assemblage. Mounted on stretchers.

Katia Bulbenko, Source, World of Threads Festival 2016. Acrylic on canvas, acrylic on wood, silk dyes on silk, inkjet print on silk, paper, hand stitching, machine stitching. Technique: painted and sewn assemblage. Mounted on stretchers.

Gallery

The Corridor Galleries at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre.

City

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Dates

Oct. 29 - Nov. 27, 2016

Hannah P Rotchild

St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada

Installation view: Hana Pinthus Rotchild, Solo Show, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Hana Pinthus Rotchild, Cocoons, World of Threads Festival 2016. Thread. Technique: thread molding and thread weaving.

Roxanna Kantarjian

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Roxanna Kantarjian, Out of the Indigo Sky, World of Threads Festival 2016. Cotton, machine pieced, machine quilted.

Roxanna Kantarjian, Out of the Indigo Sky, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Roxanna Kantarjian, Out of the Indigo Sky, World of Threads Festival 2016. Cotton, machine pieced, machine quilted.

Roxanna Kantarjian, Out of the Indigo Sky, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Sung J Kim Chisholm

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Installation view: Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Pages from Life's Journey, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Pages from Life's Journey, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Pages from Life's Journey, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016. Medium: Mixed - Plaster & Fabric. Technique: Sculpturing of Fabric by use of Plaster.

Installation view: Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Pages from Life's Journey, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Pages from Life's Journey, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Installation view: Sung Ja Kim Chisholm, Pages from Life's Journey, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Frances Keay

Durham, England

Frances Keay, Abu Dhabi Flowering, group: pink, yellow, navy blue, sky blue. World of Threads Festival 2016. Wool blanket, recycled, procian dyes, embroidery silks, batik wax, canvas cotton, procian dyes, cotton thread.

Frances Keay, Abu Dhabi Flowering, yellow, detail, World of Threads Festival 2016.

Lindsey Marshall

Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Lindsey Marshall, Resinous Dazzle, World of Threads Festival. 4 panels linen/cotton warp, mixed weft including: cotton, linen, wool, silk, metallic thread, technique: haute-lisse woven tapestry.