Simmons College / Trustman Art Gallery

Boston, MA, January 23, 1996 -- Simmons College is pleased to provide an opportunity to see art from the United States and abroad (e.g. California, New York, Iowa, Canada, Illinois and Portugal) which is frequently unsupported by commercial and public galleries. The nineteen artists par ticipating in the "Angry Needles" exhibit sew, quilt, and weave their feelings into powerful visual statements.

art from show

Angry Needles Exhibit

February 5 - March 22, 1996

Gallery talk

Wednesday, February 21

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

The Trustman Art Gallery is located in

Simmons College's Main College Building

Fourth Floor

300 The Fenway

Boston, MA 02115

Gallery hours: Monday through Friday 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The gallery will be closed on February 19, and March 4 - 8, 1996.

Art from show

Title:"Construction of Identity"

Artist: E. Margaret Rowe

Media: Needle collage, photo transfer

copyright © E.M. Rowe 1993

The Trustman Art Gallery presents the first exhibition organized by FAN (Fiber Artists with Nerve), a national group of artists exploring new directions in fiber. The work in this exhibit rejects the traditional technical standards by which fiber a rt is usually judged and presents expressive and empowered statements relating to the lives of these women artists.

ANGRY NEEDLES is a show which explores the meaning of fiberwork in women's lives. The 19 participating artists are women who sew, quilt, and weave their feelings into powerful visual statements. In using a traditionally female media, we hope to draw attention to the fierce contradictions between the cozy craft image associated with quilts and embroidery and the underlying realities of women's lives. Some of the artists in our show include:

N. Maia Howes
Her two pieces, Fruit and the Womb and And the Doctor Said... are collographic prints on cotton fabric, heavily quilted. They are based on images and words used by her oncologist in an examination for cancer.

Carolyn Erler
These pieces are quilted memorials made to cover the graves of loved ones.

Jennifer Regan
Jennifer's extremely detailed appliquéed quilts deal with marriage and repressed childhood memories.

Diane Savona
The round frames, suggesting embroidery hoops, hold quilted works which personalize the repressed anger and grief held back by mere threads.

Susan Krueger
Krueger's The Boss, with its images of domestic labor, questions our feelings about the work we do.
Other pieces in the show are concerned with suicide, breast cancer and women's identities.
The following is a list of all the artists in the ANGRY NEEDLES show:

Copyright © 1996 Simmons College and others. All rights reserved. For information about this show, or other Trustman Gallery exhibits, contacttrustman@vmsvax.simmons.edu or telephone 617-521-2268. Page last modified 29 January 1996.