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Borne With Us
(March 6 - May 16, 2009)
This exhibition highlights fiber and mixed media quilts created by Missouri artist Kim Eichler-Messmer. Pieces with titles such as Exhuming the Anonymous and Barren reveal the artist’s interest in how past experiences relate to and shape the present and future. Through pattern, color, design and imagery, she explores her own personal history and how her feelings about family relate to her outlook on nature. Eichler-Messmer’s curiosity about the mystery and uncertainty of life comes across in her quilts as a darkness that is at once familiar and discomforting. The nine works in this exhibition demonstrate the artist’s talent and a wide range of skills. Eichler-Messmer uses many different surface treatments and quilting techniques including screen-printing, appliqué, discharge and embroidery. Utilizing a combination of approaches, she creates quilts that are rich with imagery and infused with visual and conceptual depth.
For more information about Kim Eichler-Messmers work call Kati Fishbein at 412.261.7003 x 26 or email kati@contemporarycraft.org.
Click on the Slide show to view the full exhibition.
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