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click for larger image Cabbages
Printable version
  • Copyright © 2019 Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
  • Size: 30” wide X 30” high
  • Techniques:
  • Original photography, digitally printed, hand dyed, machine pieced, appliqued, and quilted
  • Fabric: 100% cotton • Batting: 50% cotton/50% bamboo Thread: polyester
  • Reserved for private collection
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Design Concept


original photo

In 2009, I visited Paris and came across a wonderful farmers market in which all the produce was beautifully arranged. A photo of Savoy cabbages on a stack of shipping crates was one of my favorites of the trip. Ten years later, I created this design inspired by my original photo. The yellow and white curtain in the photo was abstracted into wavy stripes in intersecting gradations of yellow, white, and blue. The packing crates were also interpreted in fanciful colors. I digitally manipulated the cabbage photo, enhancing the color saturation and contrast and had it printed on cotton fabric. This was appliqued into the abstract background.
The light areas of the cabbages are quilted with fluorescent thread. The packing crate shapes are quilted in a wood grain pattern. I designed a binding fabric to match the texture of the cabbages. This was printed at the same time as the cabbage photo. The backing fabric was hand painted with dye.

Exhibitions:

  • Art of the Garden Exhibition, Schack Art Center, 2921 Hoyt Ave, Everett, WA, 6/20 – 8/31, 2019
  • Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, October 17-20, 2019
  • AQS Quilt Week: Daytona Beach, 2020, Ocean Center, Daytona Beach, FL, February 26–29, 2020
  • AQS Quilt Week: Lancaster-Downtown, 2020, Lancaster County Convention Center, Lancaster, PA, March 25–28, 2020
  • AQS Quilt Week: Paducah, 2020, Schroeder Expo Center, Paducah, KY, April 22–25, 2020 (canceled due to pandemic)
  • Photos Pixels & Pizzazz, (solo exhibition) Lattimer Center for Quilts and Textiles, Tillamook, OR, May 3-June 27, 2021
  • Farm Fresh Art, SDA-NP Group Show, the Meadery, Wilderbee Farm, Port Townsend, WA, August 7 - October 31, 2021
  • Gastronomy, SAQA Juried Show, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas, October 2022, and traveling through 2025

Publications

  • Art Quilting Studio, Winter, 2021 (feature) pp. 48-49
  • Gastronomy, show catalog, SAQA, 2022, pp. 26-27
  • SAQA Art Quilt Quarterly, #29, Fall 2022, p. 18
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