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Fibonacci's Garden
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- Copyright © 1995 Caryl Bryer Fallert
- Size: 71" x 54"
- Techniques: Hand dyed and painted, machine pieced,
and quilted
- Materials: 100% cotton fabric
batting: 80% cotton / 20% polyester
- Price: $5900.00
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Design Concept
To me, a garden represents a quiet place where
the spirit can rest. In FIBONACCI'S GARDEN a profusion of
lush and vibrant life was created by painting manipulated
cotton fabric with fiber reactive dyes. The horizontal stripes
were pieced from two fabrics. One is striated, and painted
in a progression of Autumn hues and the other, also striated,
is painted in slightly lighter colors. A third fabric, used
in the border and vertical stripes was manipulated into
spirals, and painted with vibrant colors to create the illusion
of floral and leaf forms. The fabrics were cut into strips
and pieced in the orderly progressions, observed in nature
by thirteenth century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci.
A series of circles represent the centering of the mind
and spirit that occurs in the garden. The circles are graduated
in both size and color, and arc across the surface of the
lattice in a diagonal compound curve.
The machine quilting was done with top stitching
thread which shows up clearly against the background. It
forms patterns of organic leaves, flowers, and the spirals
of unfolding life, over the orderly geometry of the pieced
design. All of the quilting was done freehand with no marking
of the quilt top. This kind of quilting is like doodling.
It's patterns are as distinct to the individual quilter
as handwriting or a signature.
On the back of the quilt is a fabric painted
in clear color washes. Against this uncluttered background,
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Exhibitions & Awards:
- Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: 40 Years of Color, Light, & Motion, University of Mississippi Museum, January 25 - April 16, 2016
- Patchwork Design São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March, 2015 (invitational)
- Williams Williams & Lentz, Lobby, Paducah KY 2010-2014
- Bryerpatch Studio, Paducah KY, 2006-2010
- "Evolving Styles - 20 Years of Color & Design",
Solo Exhibition: LaConner Quilt Museum, LaConner WA, March
16 - May 15, 2005
- Caryl Bryer Fallert: Silver Star Salute: Retrospective
Exhibition, International Quilt Market & International
Quilt Festival, October 27-November 5, 2006, Houston,
TX
- Fabric Cottage, Annual Quilt Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2004
- Caryl Bryer Fallert: A Sense of Wonder, solo exhibition
at the Burlington Arts Center, Burlington, ON, Canada,
Feb. 28- Mar.30. 2001
- BUDS, BLADES, AND BOWERS, 1995 (juried) Aullwood Audubon
Center and Farm, Dayton, OH CRAFTSMANSHIP AWARD
- BOLD NEW QUILTS & TOMORROWS TREASURES, New York
Quilt Festival, 1995 (juried) New York, NY
- QuiltFest of Jacksonville, Prime Osborn Convention Center,
Jacksonville, FL Aug 24-Sept.18 (SECOND PLACE)
- SHAPES AND PATTERNS, Eastcoast Quilters Alliance, (juried)
Westford, MA , 1995 (Second Place - machine quilting Honorable
mention - Color Compatability)
- SPECTRUM: THE TEXTILE ART OF CARYL BRYER FALLERT, 1996-1998,
Two year traveling, solo exhibition: The Museum of the
American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY; Illinois Art
Gallery, State of Illinois Bldg., Chicago, IL; The Illinois
State Museum Gallery in Lockport, IL; Illinois State Museum,
Springfield, IL
- MORE CALENDAR GIRLS: (invitational) 1997 Illinois Museum
Gallery, Rend Lake, IL
- AUSTRALIAN QUILT FESTIVAL, (invitational) 1997, Melbourn,
Australia
- COLOR AND LIGHT: Solo Exhibition at Kauai Musuem, Lihui,
Hawaii, Jan-Feb.'99, & Tri cities Quilters Show, March,
'99
- PAJARO VALLEY QUILT ASSOCIATION SHOW, 2000, Watsonville,
CA (invitational)
- Caryl Bryer Fallert: A Sense of Wonder, solo exhibition
at the Burlington Arts Center, Burlington, ON, Canada,
Feb. 28- Mar.30
- Solo Exhibition: Little White School Musuem, 1993, Oswego,
IL
- Caryl Bryer Fallert: A Retrospective, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, August 20 - October 31, 2015
- Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: 40 Years of Color, Light, & Motion, University Museum, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, January 26 - April 16, 2016
- Fantasias in Fiber & Beads: (two person show) Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA, May 5-29, 2016
- Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: 40 Years of Color, Light, & Motion, Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL, July 31-October 9, 2016
Publications
- Caryl Bryer Fallert: A Spectrum of Quilts, 1983-1995
1996: AQS Books, pp 90-91
- The Quilting Quarterly, NQA, Summer 2007: p.15
- A Survey of Mathematics with Applications (9th edition),
Angel, Abbott, Runde, Pearson Education Inc. 2012, p.281
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