Exhibition of quilts and monoprints prints by Lawre Stone.
Lawre Stone’s quilt works bring together found quilts and unfinished quilt tops gathered from her ancestors and other unknown quilt makers. To honor their handwork and legacy, she picks up where the former maker left off adding her own stitches and imagery. Working on patchwork panels, she paints images derived from natural phenomena directly onto the new fabric patches and then hand appliques them to the quilt tops. The images are remembered feelings relating to internalized observations of the natural world. The petals of a dying flower, a vital organ in distress, or a broken chunk of an iceberg inspire the image she selects. Like a quilting bee, the finishing is done by a seamstress living in Lawre’s local community. The final works are inter-generational collaborations between women spanning decades, regions and cultures.
During NY Textile month, Lawre will be working at the Russell Janis print studio with printmaker Janis Stemmermann producing a series of prints, based on these unique quilts works. This project will explore printing hand-drawn imagery and cut textile onto her mother’s handmade paper made decades ago, a collaborative layering of materiality and time. Russell Janis will host an exhibition of Lawre’s quilt works and newly made prints side by side.
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Russell Janis Projects is an artist-run project space based in Brooklyn, NY established in 2014. They produce and exhibit print-based works, Inviting artists of various disciplines to collaborate. Creative Director Janis Stemmermann curates projects that push the boundaries of contemporary printmaking using textile, sculpture and the painterly print. The print studio at Russell Janis generates an array of editions, series, and unique works of art using techniques of intaglio, relief and monoprinting.