Donna Monroe
"40 Years of Innovative Wit"
A Historical Perspective
Works on Paper, Sculpture, Artfully Embellished Textiles
"40 Years of Innovative Wit"
A Historical Perspective
Works on Paper, Sculpture, Artfully Embellished Textiles
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First Floor Main Gallery
NOV 14 - FEB 28, 2021
Curated by Susan A. Christie
NOV 14 - FEB 28, 2021
Curated by Susan A. Christie
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SELVEDGE MAGAZINE, LONDON
BLOG ARTICLE: SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Donna Monroe
BLOG ARTICLE: SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Donna Monroe
An exhibition tracing the career of artist Donna Monroe from her early Photographs and Monoprints, to Collagé, Shrines, Altered Books, Totem Figures and Embellished, Three Dimensional Wall Pieces. Monroe creates sumptuous stories using found textiles, fiber and objects. Image, construction, color, texture and imagination are her watchwords.
Overlooking Turtleback Mountain from the Garden.
Happy Birthday Donna!
The Shrine in her home.
Her studio is filled with shelves of fabrics, drawers of embroidery floss organized
into colorways, buttons, laces, collected bits and pieces from thrift stores and
other browsed locations.
Happy Birthday Donna!
The Shrine in her home.
Her studio is filled with shelves of fabrics, drawers of embroidery floss organized
into colorways, buttons, laces, collected bits and pieces from thrift stores and
other browsed locations.
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My love affair with making, mixing, patterning, collaging, stitching, coloring, pasting
began early. Scrapbooking and creating my own images with cut outs from Life
magazines is one of my fondest and earliest art making memories. Coming from a long
lineage of women who embroidered, quilted, knit and crocheted, instilled a love of the
feel and texture of fiber and thread. While a child at my grandmother's knee
I experienced the thrill of plying a needle with a bright length of colored thread
through flour sacking to create a set of dish towels.
Graduating from the University of California Santa Cruz with degrees in Photography
and Printmaking, I spent the next several years taking a lot of pictures. At a point about
20 years ago I returned to my first love and began a series of original needlepoint pillows.
At the time I was living a gypsy lifestyle and the ease and lightness of carrying canvas
and yarn around was very appealing and allowed me to work with the lush colors
and richness of Persian yarns.
After settling in T or C I had the good fortune to buy a house with a large studio space
and my focus changed from small, portable pieces to larger and more varied work which
includes wall hangings, totem figures, bags, fabric collage and assemblages. Of utmost
importance to my aesthetic is the unearthing of found fabrics, paper, beads, sticks rocks,
rusty stuff found in the desert, on the street and anywhere else one stumbles upon the
detritus of human activity for reuse, repurposing, and reshaping into whatever captures
my fancy at any given moment. Having fun combining all of these elements along with
color and pattern gives me such great pleasure in making things.
...Donna Monroe
began early. Scrapbooking and creating my own images with cut outs from Life
magazines is one of my fondest and earliest art making memories. Coming from a long
lineage of women who embroidered, quilted, knit and crocheted, instilled a love of the
feel and texture of fiber and thread. While a child at my grandmother's knee
I experienced the thrill of plying a needle with a bright length of colored thread
through flour sacking to create a set of dish towels.
Graduating from the University of California Santa Cruz with degrees in Photography
and Printmaking, I spent the next several years taking a lot of pictures. At a point about
20 years ago I returned to my first love and began a series of original needlepoint pillows.
At the time I was living a gypsy lifestyle and the ease and lightness of carrying canvas
and yarn around was very appealing and allowed me to work with the lush colors
and richness of Persian yarns.
After settling in T or C I had the good fortune to buy a house with a large studio space
and my focus changed from small, portable pieces to larger and more varied work which
includes wall hangings, totem figures, bags, fabric collage and assemblages. Of utmost
importance to my aesthetic is the unearthing of found fabrics, paper, beads, sticks rocks,
rusty stuff found in the desert, on the street and anywhere else one stumbles upon the
detritus of human activity for reuse, repurposing, and reshaping into whatever captures
my fancy at any given moment. Having fun combining all of these elements along with
color and pattern gives me such great pleasure in making things.
...Donna Monroe
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