Quilt GalleryClick on the below thumbnail photo to see its larger version.[To return to this page, hit your back button in your browser.] Color Union is the combination and blending of the 6 monochromatic quilts. A musical term that means “with tender emotion.” A musical term for an occurrence of accented notes on the weak beat. Black and White prints and solids were used to create this graphic palms about shadow and light. A tiny bit of blue was added where the sky peaks through the fronds. This quilt was inspired from a photograph of the White House ruins at Canon Du Chelly in Arizona. The photograph was abstracted into rounded squares. Purple Cactus 26" x 29"Yellow Arch 27" x 41"Green Shadow 26" x 38"Red Trees 25" x 39"Tiles 22" x 30" (2000)A close up of curved tiles on the edge of a wall. The curve of the tiles were repeated to add movement to the piece. This quilt was taken from a photograph of the plant Hen and Chicks. It is the third in a series of 3. A street scene done in Black and White with circles of the scene enlarged as the ghosts. Inspired from a painting by Phyllis Randall. The original painting was abstracted to create a very flat design. Two photographs of the Redwoods in Northern California were superimposed to create this quilt. This cool color quilt combined with white creates the feeling of the coldness found in an ice cave. The second in the series from the Slot canyons in Northern Arizona, a thin slot lets the sun brighten the dark cave. These large leaves are colored very brightly with the complimentary color for the shadows, The third quilt in the Getty series. The color wash was drops of paint. Three large circles seems to zoom in on these large leaves. Cool colors of blue, purple and green were added to the whites of the ice to create a cold cave. These leaves were found in a botanical garden on Kauai, they were huge leaves and brilliantly colored. Inspired from a photograph taken at the J. Paul Getty museum in Southern California. A combination of the first little towns create this abstract village. A large circle and six little circles add to the abstraction. A close up photo of several huge philodendron leaves inspired this quilt with a transparency of a large leaf superimposed over the surface. This quilt was taken from photographs of the Chaco Canyon where the Anasazi Indians lived hundreds of years ago. The fascinating thing is the way they built their doorways one right after the other which makes it a photographers dream. I incorporated large rocks and mortars as the ghost layer and the color wash is doorways through color as well. This quilt was accepted into the Visions 1998 show and won the Penny Nii award for artistry. The second in the Chaco Canyon series. This quilt is of the Rio Hondo, the river that flows down from Taos to Santa Fe. It is included in the top 100 quilts of the 20th Century. Rocks is an abstraction looking out of a dark cave into the sunlight. Inspired from a photograph taken at the Slot Canyons in Northern Arizona, near lake Powell. A close up photo of several huge philodendron leaves inspired this quilt with a transparency of a large leaf superimposed over the surface. Taken from a close up photograph of adobe stairs. A photograph of circular steps is repeated twice one smaller in the background and larger in the foreground with a ghost of green leaves that appears to be growing over the bricks. A walk down Canyon road inspired this little street scene. This quilt was taken from a photograph of the plant Hen and Chicks. It is the first in a series of 3 This quilt was taken from a photograph of a piece of plywood that used to be the top of my cutting table. It has a large knot hole as a transparency This quilt was taken from a photograph of a piece of plywood that used to be the top of my cutting table. It had two large knot holes as a transparency. There is a collaboration going on called Women of Taste coordinated by Girls I My chef is Debroah Madison who writes wonderful vegetarian cook books, The Savory Way, The Green’s Cookbook and Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone. She suggested we do something with artichokes, because she likes to cook what is in season and when we started, artichokes were in season. All of the quilt images on this web site, are © Katie Pasquini Masopust 2007. |
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