Marilyn Prucka

Gatherings

Seeds
hand dyed quilt
54 1⁄2”h x 41"w
©2008
by Marilyn Prucka

May 13 - June 22, 2008

Opening Reception:

Friday, May 16, 7-10 pm

Artist Talk :

Sunday, June 1, 2 pm

Also showing are all gallery member-artists and the following visiting artists:

Jane Coates
Pat Eriksen
Nina Hauser
Maria Ruggerio
Fran Wolok

Artist Statement:

Gatherings is a new series of quilts inspired by fallen and windblown pine needles. A year ago I photographed a puddle filled with the long golden brown needles of white pines and reflected sky colors. I was inspired. My surroundings are the seeds of my art and in this case the texture and color of landscape.  Thick blankets of fallen 'needle-woven fabric' under trees and small windblown 'gatherings' along manmade edges remind me of protection and nurturing – a preparation for new life. Quilts as comforters seem the natural media for this expression.  
 
Marilyn M. Prucka, textile artist and printmaker.
MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University
Monroe, MI resident

These quilts are all hand-dyed and use some combination of commercial cotton fabrics, cotton and polyester threads, cotton batting; potato dextrin resists, direct application and immersion fiber reactive dyes, indigo, bleach discharge; machine piecing, hand and machine appliqué, and hand and machine quilting.

Martin Music
hand dyed quilt
87 1⁄2”h x 60"w
©2008
by Marilyn Prucka

Pattern of Reflection
hand dyed quilt
87 1⁄2”h x 48 1/2"w
©2008
by Marilyn Prucka

Spring Gathering
quilt
87-1/2"h x 45-3/4"w
©2008
by Marilyn Prucka

Sediment Series, #3
quilt
65-1/2"h x 43-1/4"w
©2005
by Marilyn Prucka