JCO'S Place Presents
ARTIST DEMO // Urban Quilter Amy Ahlstrom
Live, in the gallery
- When
- Sun Apr 10, 2016
- Where
- JCO'S Place: Fine Art | Los Gatos
- Time
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tags
- Arts, Art Events, Artists
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Description
Join us in welcoming urban quilter Amy Ahlstrom to JCO'S!Experience art making up close as you watch an artist create in real time and engage in an informal conversation about artistic processes.
RSVP'S not required.
ABOUT THE ARTIST //
Amy Ahlstrom is an urban quilter creating modern pop art.
Inspired by the street art, signage, and graffiti in city neighborhoods, Amy takes digital photos of found images, sampling and remixing them into urban quilts. Using hundreds of digital photographs, she designs collages by computer, makes paper patterns, and hand-cuts and sews quilts. The resulting quilts, made of silk and cotton and stretched onto frames, are tactile visual postcards of urban environments. They re-imagine the urban landscape and re-invent quilting as a pop art medium.
Based in the Bay Area, Amy has designed urban-themed pop art based on images of San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Berkeley as well as from her trips to Tokyo, Kyoto, New York City and Chicago. Amy holds a Master of Fine Arts in Fiber from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber from Northern Illinois University. She has exhibited widely throughout the Bay Area.
More Info
- Link
- http://jcosplace.com
- Call
- 408.888.1500 (Box Office)
- Contact Form (account required)
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