lisa call
Structures #33
46″ x 49″
www.lisacall.com

I came across lisa’s work by chance as she just exhibited a CU-Boulder where I spent some time about 10 years ago. Working with fabric, lisa creates these wonderful abstract quilts. I never paid much attention to quilts as an art form, preferring rather to just snuggle up under them and sleep, until my mom started to spend her time quilting. A few years back there was a great exhibit at the Whitney Museum, The Quilts of Gees Bend.

Lisa Call is an artist working in fiber who creates bold geometric quilts that are composed of her richly colored hand dyed fabric. Her work is abstract but draws elements from many places: her love of the colors and geological forms of the southwest, her interest in human-made structures for containment such as fences and stone walls, and her exploration of her own internal psychological walls and boundaries. [Read more…]