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Nancy Baldrica’s Watercolor Quilt Series

January 13 - March 17, 2006 Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 2006, 5:00 - 7:30 p.m.

The body of work presented in this series represents and celebrates swatches of the artist’s life. The paintings in the Watercolor Quilt Series are narratives, with each one telling a story through images based on personal experience and historical data, or depicting a design from an actual quilt pattern. The transparent watercolor paintings create a lyrical story based on theme and symbolism enhanced by the interchange of patterns between sections and planes. The series portrays an evolution from mundane subjects like still life, landscapes, and figures, to complicated and innovative, usage of images, patterns, and borders in an allegorical, narrative, and/or symbolic mode.

More than just random paint on surface, these paintings are an endevor to create order from chaos. The chaotic arrangements of objects in the central area of the paintings are stabilized by the organized borders. Each painting features a woven-like integration of representational subject matter to abstract patterns and designs created within the borders. The presentation of each painting sustains the interaction between quilting and painting. Each painting is an intricate composition of a theme enhanced and supported by quilt patterns, related borders, and overlapping transparent washes of color, with each painting’s quilted frame completing the quilt motif.

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