“Patterns in Abstract Art” will be juxtaposed against Cobean House Designs at the annual quilt show reception at the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Auburn.
“Patterns in Abstract Art” features paintings and prints by Ithaca artist Lynne Taetzsch in the museum's second floor galleries.
Taetzsch, a Newark, N.J., native, has lived and worked in Ithaca for the past 10 years.
She said she was always making some kind of art through out her life. While studying at the University of Southern California, she became attracted to surfaces.
“It was the surface of the painting itself that I fell in love with, the flat two-dimensionality, play of planes, intricacies of texture and subtleties of tone,” she says in her Web site biography.
Later, at Cooper Union in New York City, abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hoffman, Helen Frankenthaler, Fanz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko became the influences she followed.
“The real find for me at Cooper Union was my painting teacher, Charles Side,” Taetzsch said on her Web site. “In his class I added collage materials to the oil paint and that process intensified my sense of composition, leading my art to its non-objective stage. All art is abstract in the sense that it moves away from ‘reality' to some degree. Non-objective art, however, does not begin with the world at all. It has no reference point.”
She has shown paintings in solo, group and juried exhibitions throughout the United States.
Although understanding and viewing abstract art may be difficult, even new viewers can enjoy Taetzsch's large, colorful paintings.
The museum's downstairs galleries will also house traditional style quilts by Cobean House Designs' Sjoukje Schipstra, of Watkins Glen. Schipstra's quilts examine new methods and techniques for producing traditional patterned quilts in contrast with to art quilts in the Schweinfurth's Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit, alongside Taetzsch's abstract art.
Schipstra, originally from the Netherlands, has 17 quilts in the exhibit and said there is a theme or special stamp on her work that makes it unique, although it is somewhat hard to describe. She said she starts with traditional blocks but uses an innovative technique or a twist of fabric.
Schipstra began with a love of fabric which continued when she returned to the United States from Europe.
“When working with a friend, you can look at a fabric and know each other by the fabric,” she said. She described her work as mainly vintage and Americana.
“I love reproduction fabrics,” she said. One work she calls “Civil War Churn Dan” was a pattern popular in the Northeast inspired by the skinny quilts on soldiers' cots. Another, “Black and White and Red All Over,” was created in black and white with red shashing, also war-inspired.
Shipstra said her quilts take anywhere from weeks and months to a couple of years to complete. “I design on the fly,” she said, leaving her work in progress and open to change.
Kathleen
Barran
253-5311
ext. 238
kathleen.
barran
If you go.
What: “Patterns in Abstract Art” and annual quilt show, opening reception
When: 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 13
Where: Cayuga Museum of History and Art, 203 Genesee St., Auburn
Cost: Free
Info: Call 253-8051
Taetzsch, a Newark, N.J., native, has lived and worked in Ithaca for the past 10 years.
She said she was always making some kind of art through out her life. While studying at the University of Southern California, she became attracted to surfaces.
“It was the surface of the painting itself that I fell in love with, the flat two-dimensionality, play of planes, intricacies of texture and subtleties of tone,” she says in her Web site biography.
Later, at Cooper Union in New York City, abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hoffman, Helen Frankenthaler, Fanz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko became the influences she followed.
“The real find for me at Cooper Union was my painting teacher, Charles Side,” Taetzsch said on her Web site. “In his class I added collage materials to the oil paint and that process intensified my sense of composition, leading my art to its non-objective stage. All art is abstract in the sense that it moves away from ‘reality' to some degree. Non-objective art, however, does not begin with the world at all. It has no reference point.”
She has shown paintings in solo, group and juried exhibitions throughout the United States.
Although understanding and viewing abstract art may be difficult, even new viewers can enjoy Taetzsch's large, colorful paintings.
The museum's downstairs galleries will also house traditional style quilts by Cobean House Designs' Sjoukje Schipstra, of Watkins Glen. Schipstra's quilts examine new methods and techniques for producing traditional patterned quilts in contrast with to art quilts in the Schweinfurth's Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit, alongside Taetzsch's abstract art.
Schipstra, originally from the Netherlands, has 17 quilts in the exhibit and said there is a theme or special stamp on her work that makes it unique, although it is somewhat hard to describe. She said she starts with traditional blocks but uses an innovative technique or a twist of fabric.
Schipstra began with a love of fabric which continued when she returned to the United States from Europe.
“When working with a friend, you can look at a fabric and know each other by the fabric,” she said. She described her work as mainly vintage and Americana.
“I love reproduction fabrics,” she said. One work she calls “Civil War Churn Dan” was a pattern popular in the Northeast inspired by the skinny quilts on soldiers' cots. Another, “Black and White and Red All Over,” was created in black and white with red shashing, also war-inspired.
Shipstra said her quilts take anywhere from weeks and months to a couple of years to complete. “I design on the fly,” she said, leaving her work in progress and open to change.
Kathleen
Barran
253-5311
ext. 238
kathleen.
barran
If you go.
What: “Patterns in Abstract Art” and annual quilt show, opening reception
When: 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 13
Where: Cayuga Museum of History and Art, 203 Genesee St., Auburn
Cost: Free
Info: Call 253-8051
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