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TREGONING & COMPANY WELCOMES TEXTILE ARTIST, LIBBY CHANEY
“I | TRAVEL | EYE” Exhibition Runs Through August, 2011
“I | TRAVEL | EYE” Exhibition Runs Through August, 2011
Libby is a Cleveland-born San Francisco textile artist working with patterned fabrics and recycled cloth,
assembled through hand and machine stitching. Libby's great grandmothers were seamstresses, her grandmother
a milliner, and her grandfather was an officer in a textile mill in Cleveland. She has sewn "forever" and
art-worked with textiles since the 60's.
Chaney's sophisticated fabric assemblages compel your eye to travel around each work savoring both subtle
details and grand conception.
Libby Chaney will offer lively comments on her art and career during our Exhibit opening. Do join us June 17th 2011 for another THIRD FRIDAY at the 78th Street Studios!
5 - 9 pm
Open to the public
Chaney's sophisticated fabric assemblages compel your eye to travel around each work savoring both subtle
details and grand conception.
Libby Chaney will offer lively comments on her art and career during our Exhibit opening. Do join us June 17th 2011 for another THIRD FRIDAY at the 78th Street Studios!
5 - 9 pm
Open to the public
A STATEMENT BY THE ARTIST
My art is an invitation to tour a flexible destiny. I want harmony or a sense of play in my
compositions. Structures I make and paths that connect are only suggestions. Stitches are
textures, or steps on the journey, tiny trails of color.
I love color.
I bring together time, place and sensibility with the cloth from my collection. Here is unity and new life from diversity.
These works are not meant to be another problem you need to solve! Neither are they purely decoration. The are meant as a meditation for the eye, to which you can bring your heart and your mind.
- Libby Chaney
June 3rd, 2011
View a short video presentation of this exhibit here!
| SELECTED SHOWS | |
| 2010 | O’Hanlon Center, Mill Valley “The Elements” Juried, featured artist |
| 2007 | Mill Valley Art Commission, One Woman Show |
| 2006 | Mill Valley Art Commission, One Woman Show |
| 2004 | Mill Valley Art Commission, One Woman Show |
| 2000-2002 | “Women of Taste” Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition, opening at Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California. Catalogue. Interview in Oakland Museum newsletter |
| 1998 | Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, Mill Valley California (juried) |
| 1992-98 | Mill Valley Art Commission, City Hall Gallery, Annual Quilt Show (invitational) |
| 1997 | “Trilogy: Two Quilters and a Weaver – George-Ann Bowers, Robin Cowley and Libby Chaney Waszink”, American Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA. Robin Treen, Curator |
| 1996 | Voices in Cloth, East Bay Heritage Quilt Guild, Oakland, California |
| “New Quilts of Northern California, American Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose California | |
| “Beyond the Block”, Thimble Creek, Walnut Creek California | |
| 1994 | “The Marin Art Scene” Artisan’s Gallery, Mill Valley California (invitational) |
| Marin Needlework and Quilt Show, San Rafael California (Honorable Mention) | |
| “Summer Show” Artisan’s Gallery, Mill Valley California (Juror’s Award) | |
| 1993 | Pacific International Quilt Show, Burlingame California (Juried) |
| 1992 | “25th Anniversary Exhibit” Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles California |
| 1976 | Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| 1970 | Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, California |
| 1967 | May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Juried (Piece Sold) |
| SELECTED COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS |
| Fetzer Vineyard, Hopland California, Lobby of new administration building |
| Improvisational Theater Project, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California |
| Municipal Art Department, City of Los Angeles, California |
| Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, California |
| Jennifer and Robert Spangler, Columbus Ohio |
| Lorena and Harold Doolittle, Westport, Connecticut |
| Mr. and Mrs. William Block, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Bill and Camille Cosby, Beverly Hills, California |
| Bill Wood, Los Angeles, California |
| Eric Orr, Venice, California |
| Becky Jennings and Walter Mann, San Francisco, California |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| 1998 | Women of Taste, A Collaboration Celebrating Quilt Artists and Chefs, Edited by Jen Bilik, C&T Publishing Inc. Concord California |
| 1998 | Fiber Arts Magazine |
| 1998 | Featured artist, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland California, museum calendar publication |
| 1995 | Quilter’s Newsletter, “Quilting with Children” by Lynn Richards |
| 2008 | Sisters Singing, Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs, Poet ry and Sacred Stories by Women, Edited by Carolyn Brigit Flynn, Wild Girl Publishing, Santa Cruz, California, 2009. “Ohio” and “Mama on the Street”. Writing. |
| EDUCATION |
| Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware Ohio, B.F.A 1965 |
| Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle Maine, 1964 and 1966 |
| Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland Ohio 1966 |
| Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Los Angeles CA 1978 |
| College of Marin, Kentfield California 1999, 2001, 02, 03, 04, 05 |
| Numerous workshops |
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