Stitch and Stones 2: Art Quilts and Mosaic Jewelry

Last Thursday Artists Reception, May 28, 6 to 9pm

Show runs May 28 through June 22, 11am to 7pm

This show in the windows of Alberta Street Gallery reunites jeweler June Martin and fiber artist Alycia Allen Tolmach, longtime members of the gallery. Landscape art quilts created out of Japanese kimono silks provide a rich setting for miniature mosaic jewelry featuring Moroccan ceramic tile, Italian glass, turquoise, slate, coral, and chrysocolla.

June finds joy in creating intricate patterns in small spaces, using an array of tools such as tweezers, picks, nippers, and rubbing stones. Piece by piece, the materials undergo a metamorphosis, resulting in one-of-a-kind jewelry that is so much more than a sum of its (tiny) parts. June’s work is a nod to traditional micro-mosaic, albeit with a modern twist.

Alycia transforms fluid silks into romantic landscape art quilts, creating mountains whose flanks glow with the ancient weaves and luscious colors of traditional Japanese kimonos. Marrying beautiful fabrics in unexpected ways, she creates lyrical landscapes from the everyday wear of everyday women in long ago Japan.

With unique fabrics from Japan and stone and tile from far-flung places, June and Alycia create a world of rich colors and exotic textures -- from mountainsides to tiny mosaic masterpieces -- in short, a world of Stitch and Stones.

Alberta Street Gallery is a friendly and vibrant cooperative gallery of 30 local artists in the heart of the Alberta Arts District in Northeast Portland.

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