Avis Collins Robinson is a visual artist best known for her paintings and abstract quilts that explore America’s tensions over race, gender, oppression and history. Abstraction in visual art is ...

Avis Collins Robinson was a visual artist best known for her paintings and abstract quilts that explored race, gender, oppression and conflict in American history. Eugene Robinson is a Post ...

That is not to say that her abstract quilts don’t tell a story. Wells works with ephemeral, disposable, and found materials, often assembling scraps of cloth in eccentric ways.

Mathews didn't start out as an abstract quilter. She started in 2000 with a pattern for a log cabin crazy quilt, which she made as a bedspread.

The abstract patterns and styles, unique compared to many other styles of American quilting, ... The Gee’s Bend quilts that changed modern art. Updated: Dec. 15, 2023, 2:04 p.m.

Jerry Saltz reviews “Beyond Patchwork: The Abstractions of Yvonne Wells’ at Fort Gansevoort. The show spotlights how the artist’s abstract quilts tell the story of the African diaspora.

For years, Amish quilts from Lancaster County decorated the San Francisco headquarters of Esprit. Company co-founder Doug Tompkins collected abstract quilts and hoped their design, color and ...

The abstract patterns of Gee's Bend made people around the world think of all kinds of interesting things. Some people even think that the patterns in the quilts are similar to paintings done by a ...

Oklahoma-born Susan Pless’s abstract “Untitled (Strip)” quilt, above, dated from before 1944, will in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) exhibit “Routed West ...

Working from a gritty loft in Lower Manhattan in the late 1950s, she made abstract paintings on quilts that brought a fine-art sensibility to a folk art. Skip to content Skip to site index.