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Lancette Arts Journal
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Art Reviews |
Spring 2001 |
Masterful Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert
By Alidë Kohlhaas
The title of the current exhibit in the main gallery of the Burlington Art Centre is most aptly named. It is a quilt show unlike any other ever shown here. The quilts that the American quilt artist Caryl Bryer Fallert creates have no resemblance to what most people think of as quilts, namely the wonderful pieces of traditional designs—and these days sometimes not so traditional—that are hand-quilted by the Mennonite women in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, or south of the border in various rural settings. Bryer Fallert's quilts are paintings in cloth.
Her Rhododendron, 1998, (left) a detailed depiction of a rhododendron bloom that measures 64" by 51", is intricately reproduced in hand dyed pure cotton, contains dyed appliqués, and has been carefully and delicately quilted by machine. Yes, machine. Bryer Fallert has dared to break the rule of making quilts by hand-stitching, and she has been rewarded for it.
In 1989 her Corona II: Solar Eclipse won Best of Show at one of the quilt world's most highly respected shows despite having been entirely pieced and quilted by machine. In 1999, this same quilt was named one of the best 100 quilts in the USA in the 20th century. The jury . . .
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