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| Reception for Detroit Artist Carole Harris is Thursday, September 9 |
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HANCOCK, MI – A closing reception for Detroit artist Carole Harris
is Thursday, September 9, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Finlandia
University Gallery, in the Finnish American Heritage Center,
Hancock. Harris will present a lecture about her work at 7:15 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Harris’s exhibit, “Improvisations,” is a collection of colorful, complex handmade quilts. It is on display through September 11, 2010. The dense layering of patterns and the repetition of materials that Harris employs in her non-traditional quilts and tapestries are evocative of the rhythms, energy, and movement found in African and African-American music, particularly Blues and Jazz. “I try to think of my work as the visualization of the music that inspires me,” notes Harris. |
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Harris’s visual vocabulary comes from a mixture of traditional quilt
patterns and her own imagery, impressions, and experimentations. Her
art is composed of hundreds of richly colored fabrics which are cut,
overlaid, appliquéd, pieced and quilted. “Quilts are like paintings, full of color, texture, and design,” Harris says. “I try to create energy in both a spontaneous (improvisational) and an organized way—much as a jazz musician will take a theme and riff on it until it is unrecognizable, while always maintaining control.” Harris will be on the Finlandia University campus September 9 to 11 to work with the university’s Fiber Arts and Fashion Design majors. |
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Harris’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally
and internationally, including the Renwick Gallery of the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the Museum of Art &
Design in New York City, and in Europe and Japan. |
