Are you familiar with the term "abstract landscapes?" Hmm. Sounds like an oxymoron, you say? That's what Shirley Gisi thinks, too, yet she admires some oil paintings of the Southwest that are referred ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. The geometric designs and vivid colors suggest modern abstract art, but the items in a new exhibition at the ...

Artist Joyce Martelli, of Rochester, never plans her pieces. “When I am in a creative zone, I just go to my studio and start painting,” she said. “How I feel that day is represented on the material.” ...

Lou Ann Smith recently returned home from the Quilt National 2015 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Ohio, where her beautiful abstract quilt known as “Leaf 2” was one of just 86 quilts selected for the ...

New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art during New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney ...

Mary Mathews has come a long way since her first log cabin crazy quilt in 25 years. She started improvising and learned to see her art with a different lens. Duluth abstract quilter Mary Mathews ...

In 2002, the art world was rocked to its foundation by a group of unusual, abstract quilts made by African American women from Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Gee’s Bend was settled by local slaves in the 19th ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Members of Art Quilts Maine were challenged to find inspiration from ...

Thick beige-and-brown colored fabrics pad the walls of Ukrainian Village storefront space Fernwey. They’re not decorative—these four six-foot-tall quilts, which look more like topographic maps than ...

“Journey to Japan,” is the fourth and final part of the seminal exhibition “Abstract Design in American Quilts” now on display at the International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

For years, Amish quilts from Lancaster County decorated the San Francisco headquarters of Esprit. Company co-founder Doug Tompkins collected abstract quilts and hoped their design, color and ...

Collectors and curators alike prize Amish quilts for their timeless simplicity and graphic style that can also look modern. Believe it or not, early German-speaking immigrants warmed their beds with ...