Center on Contemporary Art presents...
“Reconstruction”, new art quilts by Darbury Stenderu
Darbury Stenderu has taken this traditional craft and updated it as a medium in which to incorporate and preserve her original prints. The Art Quilt stands out as soft sculpture, a visual two-dimensional format that can speak to people while preserving her signature patterning and repetition.
Her desire to create unique and original works is seen in the details --dense and obsessive stitching, laboriously placed patchworks, abstract patterning, random and repetitive print. The potential for growth is infinite.
Using fine and luxurious fabrics she hand screens prints from her own complex silk- screen paintings. The dyes interact with the cloth and create an organic texture and variation within each print. No two are ever identical. Every step in the process is done by hand. Her prints are recognizable, her audience global.
Darbury Stenderu has compiled a body of work that has a huge visual impact--at once technically skilled while being spontaneous, raw, and organic. These quilts are made to be used as a workaday function, or appreciated as Fine Art: they are timeless, archival, and collectible.
Au Medallion Baby
47” x 60”
Hand printed silk velvet face, organic cotton batting, silk satin with gold
lurex fleck back, satin trim.
Black Poppy Baby
51” x 60”
Hand printed silk velvet face, organic cotton batting, linen back, satin
trim.
Glass Habitat Baby
48” x 57”
Hand printed silk satin and crepes, organic cotton batting, silk velvet back.
satin trim.
Goth Sampler
50” x 59”
Individual sampler squares of resist print on silk velvet, organic cotton
batting, natural silk dupioni back, satin trim.
Ionic Fern Baby
45” x 59”
Silk pongee and cotton velveteen face printed with metallic pigment ink, organic
cotton batting, silk panne velvet back, satin trim.
Large Sampler
80” x 95”
Individual sampler squares of printed linen, organic cotton batting, silk
velvet back, silk/linen trim
Mephisto
85” x 95”
Hand printed silk velvet face, organic cotton batt, raw silk dupioni back,
satin trim.
Pocket Full of Coins
59” x 63”
Individually printed sampler squares on linen face, organic cotton batting,
silk velvet back, rough silk/linen trim.
Scary Face Sampler
51” x 51”
Individual sampler squares of printed raw silk tussah, organic cotton batting,
silk velvet back, rough silk/linen trim.
Snakey Baby
44” x 59”
Various painted silks of velvet, paper taffeta, satin, cotton velveteen printed
with metallic pigment ink;
organic cotton batt, silk velvet back, silk satin trim.
Sugar Baby
49” x 60”
Various printed silk, hand printed and painted: satin, crepe, velvet, boucle,
organic cotton batting, silk velvet back.
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