Press Release Exhibition of Quilts April 2008
Traditional and Not-so-traditional Quilts
The St. Jacobs Quilt Gallery will be hosting Joan Hug-Valeriote as the featured artist and Artist-in-Residence from April to July 2008. The opening Artist’s reception will take place on Sunday, April 27th, 2-4 p.m. in 3rd floor Gallery in the Old Mill. All are welcome To view pictures of this show you can go to the show here. Joan at her studio in Guelph, using her long-arm quilting machine. Joan’s 2008 show is entitled Traditional and Not-so-traditional Quilts. Some of the traditional quilts include graphic, hand-quilted bed-quilts from the 1990’s and two hand-pieced quilt-tops by Anne C. Bawden, another Guelph resident, which were machine-quilted by Joan on her long-arm Noltings quilting machine. The show shows the evolution of Joan’s quilting with a progression from hand-pieced and hand-quilted bed-quilts through contemporary pieces, done by hand and machine, including art quilts and wall-hangings ranging from small “almost Amish” pieces to Japanese-style quilted wall-hangings, as well as landscapes and framed textile art. Pieces which make statements of political and social relevance include "Too Much Night Light", a 3-D representation of a fluorescent light fixture thought to be a factor in causing breast cancer in women who work at night, and "Ghosts of Heritage Past", featuring photographs of architectural gems in Guelph that have been demolished, printed on transparent silk organza with her computer and layered over photos of the “shoe-box” buildings that replaced them, set in an old-fashioned "photo album". "Ghosts of Heritage Past" was inspired by the threatened demolition of the Loretto Convent in Guelph, and was completed while Joan was previously showing and working in the St. Jacobs Quilt Gallery, in 2004. It has been seen in several shows and was exhibited in the main Guelph Public library twice in the interim, as well as having been juried into the Grand National: Constructions show in the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in 2005. Joan’s next show will be in the Lodge on Amherst Island off Kingston in August.
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