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click for larger image Jacuzzi Jazz #1
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  • Copyright © 2015 Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
  • Size: 60" x 60"(152cm x 152cm)
  • Techniques: Hand dyed, hand painted, digitally printed, machine pieced, and quilted
  • Materials: fabric-100% cotton / batting: 50% cotton 50% bamboo
  • Owner: Frank Klein Collection: Yorktown, TX
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Design Concept

This quilt was made especially for my solo show “Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: 40 Years of Color, Light, and Motion. The vortex was inspired by the spiraling designs found in many fractals.

The design begins with a very light center and as the spiral gets larger the colors become darker and more saturated against a background of virtual black. To create an eye-dazzling effect, I have used rainbow colors alternating with their compliments, an arrangement I call “intersecting color and value gradations”.  

Half of the fabrics are from the various collections I have designed for Benartex and the other half are one-of-a-kind fabrics that I hand dyed in rainbow gradations, hand painted with dye, or designed and printed digitally.

The quilting was done with dozens of different colors of #30 and #40 top-stitching thread. The smaller, sharper templates were quilted in “feather” patterns and the larger templates were quilted with a flowing pattern that incorporates a few spirals to suggest eddies within the vortex.

Exhibitions:

  • Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: 40 Years of Color, Light & Motion
  • Fantasies 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
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  • Quilts: A World of Beauty: International Quilt Association Show, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX  November 2-5, 2017
  • AQS - Daytona Beach 2018, Ocean Center, Daytona Beach, FL, February 28 – March 3, 2018
  • AQS – Lancaster 2018, Lancaster County Convention Center, March 21- 24, 2018  
  • AQS – Paducah: Spring 2018, Schroeder Convention Center, Paducah, KY, April 18 - 21, 2018
  • Color, Light, & Motion: Fine Art Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Art at the Old Alcohol Plant Gallery, Port Hadlock, WA, July 8-August 26, 2018
  • Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum: Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival 2018, Edward D. Hansen Conference Center, Everett, WA, 10/12-14, 2018
  • Opposites Attract (SAQA Juried Exhibition)
    • Australasian Quilt Convention – April 16 to 19, 2020
    • Perth Craft & Quilt Fair – May 22 to 26, 2020
    • Brisbane Stitches & Craft Show – June 5 to 8, 2020
    • Canberra Craft & Quilt Fair – August 2020
    • Newcastle Stitches & Craft Show – September 2020
    • UK Festival of Quilts 2023 from August 3rd - 6th, 2023
    • Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio, USA, October 13, 2023 - December 3, 2023

Publications

  • Quilt Scene, International Quilt Festival, 2017 Official Insiders Guide, Gallery section: p. 22
  • AQS Daytona Beach Show Book: 2018 p.50
  • AQS Catalog of Show Quilts Paducah 2018, p. 31
  • The Brain Gyre: An Inclusive, Dynamic ‘Science’ Paradigm, Donna Pido,  Martin Khamala and Odoch Pido, A presentation to The Kenya National Academy of Sciences, June 28th 2018, p 5
  • Opposites Attract: SAQA Global Exhibitions, 2020, Exhibition Catalog, Cover and pp. 20-21
  • SAQA Global Exhibitions Catalog, 2021, p. 16
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Updated 1/16/24