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Artist Statement
As an artist, I have been fortunate to create meaningful work in various media. For me, if my work doesn’t have a solid foundation and contributes to the world, it has no meaning. I have explored socio/political issues, primarily overcrowding and overpopulation. Contributing to overcrowding has been part of my dilemma ; working with tangible physical materials and the accumulation of supplies with which to create that work has made me feel more of an accomplice than a solution.
A recent move into another living space has also forced me to really look at what I have; and how I have to move it around with me. I am not portable with so much. I am not as free as I wish to be.
I simply cannot justify conspicuous consumption of materials and the storage of those as much as I have in the past. I will continue to work with fabric but cannot see any rationale for purchasing new materials; what I have will be what I use. There is no way I can not continue my work in textiles…it is part of my soul, my being, my spirit.
So I move into the world of digital photography.
Armed with nothing more than a laptop, a camera and a camera phone, I embark on another visual journey. Who knows where this will lead? Freedom to be, to experience the world.
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Photography
“Urban Marks”
I have long had a love affair with cities, the grittiness of urban life and how we live and survive in those environs.This work focuses on simply, urban marks. Marks on pavement, floors, walls, what lies beneath our feet and next to us. Around us. Above us. Art is everywhere and yearns to be experienced.
“Do Not Enter”
How do we isolate ourselves? With physical or emotional barriers?
Textiles
I have produced three major series of work in textiles, and each stands on its own thematically. Although I spend time working with non-tangible physical materials in digital photography, I continue to explore work with textiles.
“Identity” series
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“Identity” is my first textile series since “Compartments” in 2014. I took a sabbatical from textiles and explored both oil painting and encaustic sculpture during 2015; and underwent a major life change that year as well.
I moved from a very lonely lifestyle and rural residence into a more populated area, and have since become a city dweller which suits me perfectly. I have always loved cities..the energy, the dynamic and culture, along with the diversity, are so exciting
“Compartments” series
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The series, “Compartments,” refers specifically to residential land usage throughout the world. The concept began with my reaction to photographs of areas of poverty in Africa, where people lived in dumps converted into villages. The dumps were colorful due to the preponderance of printed materials strewn on the ground. A great number of Americans live in abject poverty that is typically swept out of our line of sight. Low-income housing projects and apartments with residents too numerous for their intended size cluster in our inner cities where they remain unnoticed by most Americans. The families who live in such communities often survive on government assistance programs and have never known the luxury of living in a single family dwelling that properly accommodates their size. Their living spaces are congested and small residential complexes built closely together in multi-story buildings.
Conversely, we witness the effects of urban sprawl into single-family residential homes that eventually become abandoned buildings throughout our country. Politicians tout that all Americans have the right to own a home in the suburbs. Mortgage loans were awarded indiscriminately to masses of our population who could not possibly afford to repay those loans, leading to mass evacuations from suburban areas back into the cities from which they originally fled. Their American dream vanished.
More deeply is the issue of overpopulation in the world. Statistics state that that world population will reach 8 billion between 2025and 2040. On October 31, 2011, according to demographers, the earth’s human population crossed the 7 billion mark. It took only 12 years for the global population to increase from 6 billion in1999—and only 12 years before that to increase from 5 billion. Our planet simply cannot sustain growth at these levels.
The common denominator in each piece is the birds-eye view of the dwelling that illustrates the constraints of the inhabitants residing in their own “compartments.”
CV/Exhibitions
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Other artwork may be purchased directly through my site.
Interviews
http://www.btrtoday.com/listen/artuncovered/week-of-080817-3/
Exhibitions
2018
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, New York
Material: An Exhibition of Original Fiber Artworks form Across the Country, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Artist as Quiltmaker, Obelrin, OH
2017
Art Comes Alive/Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH
National Juried Exhibition at Larkin Arts, Harrisonburg, VA
New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts, Fort Collins, CO
A Feast for the Eyes: Contemporary Quilts, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
Global Murmurs, ExPERIENCE FiBERArT, Rochester, NY
Material Mastery, Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
2016
Artist as Quiltmaker, Oberlin, OH
Urban Murmurs, Rochester, NY
New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts, Fort Collins, CO
Northern National Art competition, Nicolet Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI
Benefactor Award
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, New York
Patchwork Pundits Take on Politics, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO
2014
Solo Exhibition Harumi Yoga and Healing House September – October 2014
8787 E Pinnacle Peak Rd, Suite 206 Scottsdale, AZ 85255
Bold Expressions 2014 Northern California Arts Association
Less is More: Small Works in a Great Space The Mitchell Gallery – St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland
Featured Artist, Artsy Shark http://www.artsyshark.com/2014/03/14/featured-artist-aryana-londir/
20″ x 20″ x 20″: A National Compact Competition, LSU Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
Richeson Small Works 2014
Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas, Texas
2013
American Craft Exhibition, Evanston, IL
Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
National Fiber Directions Exhibition, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Kansas
2012
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, New York
Juried Fiber Art Exhibition, Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ
American Craft Today at The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC
2012 International Juried & Judged Quilt Festival, La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum
Second Place, Masters Pieced
Crossroads in Fiber, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
Strands, North Bank Artists Gallery, Vancouver, WA
Fiber Options: Material Explorations, Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery
Crafts National 2012, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS
Celebrating Our Past, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH
New Legacies Art Quilt Exhibition, The Ft. Collins Lincoln Center, CO
Tactile Architecture, International Quilt Association Juried Exhibit
2011
Art=Quilts=Art, Schweinfurth Art Center, New York
Best of Show Award
Tactile Architecture, International Quilt Association Juried Exhibit
The Art Quilt Experience, Cazenovia, New York
Publications
Fiber Art Now, Fall 2016
Designs in Art Quilts, 2013 publication date
Urban Confustions, art and literary journal 2012
The Studio Quilt: State of the Art, by Sandra Sider 2011
500 Art Quilts, Lark 500 Series Art Books 2010
Grants and Awards
Third place award, Art=Quilts=Art, Schweinfurth Art Center, New York
Benefactor Award, NIcolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI 2016
2014 Niche Awards Finalist
Arizona Commission on the Arts Grant Recipient, 2010, 2007, 2006, 2005
Arizona Commission on the Arts Residency Roster, 2007 – 2005
Public Art Commissions, Cave Creek Unified School District, Cave Creek, AZ, 2007, 2005
Commissions Accepted
Associations
Surface Design Association
TAFA (Textile and Fiber Art list)
