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January 2012

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Resist Dyeing Workshop with Ashley Thayer at...

Monday, January 16, 2012 5pm - 8pm I have a dream… to dye my own fabric! This Martin Luther King Jr. Day our friend and latest lady-inspiriation dye/quilt/color artist Ashley Thayer will be hosting a resist dyeing workshop for all of you dye-hards. She recently studied with Elin Noble at Penland School of Crafts and now, this new year, she’s sharing her knowledge with us! Can I get a SEY ...

November 2011

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Ashley Thayer at Tartine Bakery 15 November 2011 Cassie McGettigan Aequum, Ashley Thayer’s installation of hand-dyed textiles, quilts, and paintings is opening tomorrow night at Tartine Bakery. We are delighted, as well, to offer a selection of Ashley’s scarves and napkins here at the shop….we’re also planning to offer a workshop with Ashley to come...

TARTINE PRESENTS ASHLEY THAYER Heath Kessler When I was getting breakfast this morning at Tartine I noticed the fantastic new installation of paintings and quilts that went up today. The show, titled Aequum by artist/dyer Ashley Thayer, is an exploration of form inspired by water. The pieces are stunning interpretations of chemistry and hydrodynamics translated...

Mention in Apartment Therapy

Ashley Thayer at Tartine: Quilts, Paintings, Dyeings Not content to simply craft painstakingly-constructed quilts, artist Ashley Thayer hand-dyes the fabric first, using “reactive MX dyes, acid dyes, indigo, and natural dyes from botanicals foraged around her home in Los Angeles.” The opening reception for her exhibition at Tartine Bakery is tomorrow night! I don’t know...

October 2011

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August 2011

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April 2011

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March 2010

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Opening night of skarbczyk!

February 2010

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MARTYNA SZCZESNA skarbczyk March 18th - April 29th zine by Karl Dotter Focusing her collages around images of landscapes, Polish-born artist Martyna Szczesna draws on the aesthetic clichés of scenic calendars and postcards in order to mine their manufactured sense of nostalgia and longing. Fascinated by the simultaneous power and disposability of the photographic image, Szczesna uses the...

December 2009

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October 2009

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MATTHEW A. SCHWARTZ Catman’s Travels October 15th - November 12th Matthew Schwartz’s work centers on his character Catman, which he uses as an anthropomorphic tool to grapple with the human condition and our vulnerability to the world. Schwartz inserts Catman into a mythological hybrid of Biblical sagas, historical events, and autobiographical narratives to create a metaphorical facilitator for...

September 2009

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GRANT EARL LAVALLEY oew and nld October 3rd – September 8th “As the story goes the man awoke, at first swarmed in foggy dilusion, But as time went on His situation Began to Become clearer. it was not for some time that he realized the extent of danger He was in. the man was crated and buried. cept company only by the loud sounds of his own shifting clothing and short panicing breaths. hours...

July 2009

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NADIA MOSS Fantomes! July 23rd – August 27th Fantomes! is a stream of consciousness tableau which uses metaphorical beasts to explore the emotional burdens of caregiving. In her watercolors and illustrations Moss creates a fantasy world whimsical yet ominous, and often perplexing. Her ethereal bestiaries brim with hybrid figures that mingle with babies in a pantomime of the ritual aspects of...

April 2009

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Open Endless - David Wilson

March 2009

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Night Pollution - Sarah Cathers

February 2009

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Zone Modules and Monoliths - Suzie Poling

December 2008

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Systems of Transference - Chris Wade

November 2008

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Wool Blankets, Linen Towels & Bread - Travis Meinolf

October 2008

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New Works - Katie Vida