Susie Monday

Artist, maker, teacher, author, head cook and bottlewasher.

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The art I make is the result of a life-long love of pattern, texture and color. How I teach is a skill honed by experience (I started teaching creative arts to younger kids when I was 12). After earning a B.A. in Studio Arts from Trinity University, I helped lead an internationally recognized educational foundation, designed curriculum exhibits for schools and other institutions, wrote and edited for a major daily newspaper, opened the San Antonio Children's Museum and then, a dozen years ago, took the scary but essential (for me) leap to become a fulltime artist and art teacher.

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    Thursday
    Apr302009

    More Ties that Bind

    Escape Velocity, 2009.
    19" by 26.5" by 2.5' Textile on wooden frame
    $400

    Here's a preview of some of my new work that will be shown at FiberArt Space though June 15, with the artists' reception tonight starting at 5:30. The 8" by 8" by 1.5" pieces are a new format for me, inspired by a desire to make some smaller work that relate to larger pieces. These little satellites are $85 -- I hope they'll find good homes! If you are interested in any of the pieces in this preview (just a few of the 24 pieces I have on display), please contact the gallery.

    Fiber Artspace
    1414 S. Alamo St. # 103
    San Antonio, TX 78210

    210-633-6959

    Located in the Blue Star Art Complex
    In the Armon Art Suite of Galleries

    They will be happy to arrange shipping. If you want to see more, email me and I'll try to have an album link up on my website by early next week.

     

     

    Above top: Letting Go 2, Letting Go 1, each 8" by 8" by 1.5"

    Above, lower: Dream Tree with Spines, 8" by 8" by 1.5"

    (I think) Please describe these if you wish to purchase one of these, I realize now I didn't put the numbers on the photo titles!

    Dream house with Spines, 2009 SOLD

    8" by 8" by 1.5"

    $85

     

    Pomegranate, 2009 SOLD

    8"by 8" by 1.5"

    $85

    This last piece has an unusual history and technique in its making: I love pomegranates and often feature them in my work. They have both real and symbolic beauty and are, to me, a symbol of the fertility of creativity. This was a photoshopped image of a pomegranate that I photographed in Monte Vista, an area near my old university (Trinity University in San Antonio) when I walked there last fall. The tree was a full bushy shrub with many fruit and it was just luscious. When I worked on the photo, I enhanced and saturated the colors to make the image move from real to magical. I printed the image on several materials, including this plastic packing material -- (perhaps its Tyvak, but I am not sure as it was a recycled bit found on the run). Then, last fall when teaching at the International Quilt Festival in Houston (where I'll be teaching and lecturing this fall, too) I had used all the fabric I brought for demonstrating a polychrome method of screenprinting with water-soluble crayons -- This scrap of an image fell out of the box of supplies (I'd actually taken it for a different demo) and the rest is history -- that's the swirly designs. 'Course, in making this piece, I added more fabric, screenprinted the squiggles and the wheel symbol and did some machine and hand stitching to finish the embellished image, floating there in its magical mystical presence!

    If you'd like to know the checkered past for any of these other pieces, or any of the art on my website or blog elsewhere, please leave a question in the comments. Everything has a story.

    P.S. Here's a complete list of my work that's in the exhibit. Any questions, send me an email with the contact box in the sidebar,.

    a) Title: Escape Velocity
    Size: 19” by 26.5” by 2.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price: $400


    b) Title:Escape Velocity, 2
    Size: 12” by 12” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price: $115


    c) Title:Dream Tree with Spines
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    d) Title: Dream House with Spines
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    e) Title:Escape
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    f Title: Dream House with Spines, 2
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    g) Title: ”I’m Out of Here”
    Size: 19” by 26.5” by 2.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price: $400


    h) Title:Escape
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    i) Title:Dream House with Spines, 3
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    j) Title: Pomegranate: Fertile Earth
    Size: 19” by 26.5” by 2.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price: $350


    k) Title: Earth Niche, 1
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    l) Title:Earth Niche, 2
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    m) Title: Pomegranate 1
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    n) Title: Pomegranate 2
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    o) Title:Fig Leaf
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    p) Title: Rose Grotto
    Size: 12” by 16” by 3.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$200


    q) Title: El Cielo Dream, 2
    Size: 19” by 17.5” by 2.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price: $350


    r) Title: El Cielo Dream, 3
    Size: 12” by 12” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$110


    s) Title:Letting Go, 1
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    t) Title: Letting Go, 2
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    u) Title:Letting Go, 3
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    v) Title:Letting Go, 4
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile on wooden frame
    Retail Price:$85


    W) Title:Michael of a Thousand Eyes
    Size: 8” by 8” by 1.5”
    Media: Textile , art quilt
    Retail Price $750

     

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    Reader Comments (2)

    Congratulations, Susie on last night's show! Hope all goes well tonight. Love, Linda
    May 1, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterlinda cuellar
    I love the new format. Congratulations on this wonderful body of work.
    May 13, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSusan

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