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| Lanny Bergner's sculpture of screen mesh and frit at FSU Museum of Fine Arts Thread of Life exhibit |
I saw the word frit at FSU's Thread of Life exhibit at FSU yesterday. Lucky I was with Jennifer, who knows frit (A degree in ceramic engineering helps, she said). It's colored glass, but more complicated. I love frit. Lanny Bergner's mesh and frit sculptures are my favorite pieces in the understated, lovely exhibit. I was also happy to see three quilts by FAMU architecture professor and artist Valerie Goodwin
Yesterday was my second visit -- this time I studied methods of display, other than the conventional cloth pocket and rod for quilts. (Those were distinguished by distance from the wall; fluid cloth looks best when it's not flush but allows some air.) Timothy Harding's simply-bound silk quilts were Velcro-ed to a wooden bar.
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| Koi, Timothy Harding |
Harriet's Music Room (16" x 18"), one of Laura Breitman's refined fabric collages, seems to be a base of firm paper glued to foam core attached to a mat in a subdued frame. Her Water lilies (below) was wrapped around a support, set inside and slightly away from a gold frame that was painted black within.
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| Water lilies, Laura Breitman. fabric collage |
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| Water lilies, detail |
One of Judy Chicago's weavings is mounted to a larger fabric-wrapped board.
The show ends March 25.
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