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I have known Gwen for over 40 years. She and I were roommates late in our college years. She got a degree in Interior Design while I got mine in Fine Arts. She went on to a varied career including institutional interior design and, ultimately, library science. In the last few years she has returned to her first love: color. Using the skills of quiltmaking, she investigates how color and form influence each other.
2018-2019 Art
Quilts
By
Gwen Schagrin
These works were inspired by a variety
of situations: a guild challenge, workshops with art quilting gurus, techniques
in books that I wanted to try, improvisational reworking of patterns combined
with a new approach to three dimensions, and scrap piecing.
As always, I am motivated to create
and explore by improvisationally manipulating color, form, composition, and
balance.
The teaching and works of Rayna
Gillman, Pam Beal, Jean Wells, and Cindy Grisdela have inspired and guided me.
The opening was filled with people who had never been to the gallery before...the fiber people came out. It was kind of a quiet opening, but I think fiber does that to a person. It is soothing. You should come be soothed as well.
