Sue Beevers - Quilt Bliss: Art Quilts, Paintings, Textile Designs
Sue Beevers’ quilts demonstrate a reverence for the lessons learned from the practitioners of this traditional art form and, at the same time, meet the challenges of expanding its boundaries by combining handwork and art. Her pieces can be as intricate and complex puzzles or as a small number of powerful squares or circles floating on seemingly neutral grounds. Some comprise thousands of hand and/or machine stitched blocks, while others just a hundred. The geometric, irregular, or curved patterns have a painterly quality, which endows the works with dynamism. Beevers has an excellent sense of placement, of mapping out a flat surface into justly and spatially balanced partitions. Her definite color compositions correlate a knowledge of craft with fine arts…. She pursues the depiction of observed objects with the utmost economy of means, though not for the sake of natural imitation but for new schemes of visual co-ordination. She strives not for an increase or for a recovery of emotional power, but for an enlargement of her visual instrumental resources by intermarrying quilting and fine art techniques and vocabularies…
Excerpted from “Sue Beevers: Quilt Bliss”
by Hamid Irbouh, Exhibition Catalogue.
(Barrett Art Gallery, Utica College,
Utica, New York, April 5 – May 6, 2010).
by Hamid Irbouh, Exhibition Catalogue.
(Barrett Art Gallery, Utica College,
Utica, New York, April 5 – May 6, 2010).
Beever’s primary interest is in the natural cycles, shapes and forms of nature and seasonal changes of her rural landscape. We see her interests in her paintings that adapt to textile designs. The patterns, melodies and variations given in nature become paintings and repeated continuous design in textiles. Paintings and Quilts are woven from her love of the rhythms in her nature inspired passions. Her art quilts are held in collections in the USA, Japan and Europe.
Sue is married to David and lives in Deansboro, NY. She teaches Quilting, Weaving and other Fiber Arts workshops on the national and international level. She maintains her own branding for designs and provides fabric designs to international textile manufactures.
For more information, visit the Barrett Gallery Web site at www.utica.edu/gallery
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