Biography the Masterpiece Quilt Award from the Addition to Her Commission Work, Caryl Bryer Fallert- National Quilting Association
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exhibitions. In 1986, Caryl received Gegauf A.G. (Switzerland). In Biography the Masterpiece Quilt Award from the addition to her commission work, Caryl Bryer Fallert- National Quilting Association. She Caryl reserves time to create a body of Gentry is has received Master Awards for both very personal, experimental quilts. internationally Contemporary Artistry (2002 & 2006) Born in 1947 in Elgin, Illinois, Caryl recognized for her graduated with a BA from Wheaton award winning fine College in 1969. She also studied art art quilts. She is at Illinois State University, College of best known for her DuPage, and University of Wisconsin. organic, curved Caryl was a seam designs, her scintillating use of lifelong color, and her multilevel illusions of resident of light and motion. Her attention to Northern detail has earned her a reputation for Illinois, until fine craftsmanship as well as stunning 2005, when she designs. Honors include: 100 Most and Machine Artistry (1997) from the moved to Important Quilts of the Twentieth International Quilt Association, and Paducah, Century (2000), 30 Most Influential machine workmanship awards from Kentucky, and Quiltmakers in the World (2002), both the American Quilters Society opened the Bernina Quilt Leadership Award (2004 & 2009) and the Quilting the Bryerpatch (2003), All American Quilter (2004) Quilt national exhibition (2003). Studio shop, gallery, and workshop and International Quilt Festival Silver center in Paducah’s historic Lower Star (lifetime achievement) Award Caryl has authored two books, and Town Arts District. In 2013, Caryl (2006). numerous workshops on CD-ROM. Her work has appeared in hundreds of married Dr. Ron Gentry, and set up a national and international second working studio in Port publications, including the covers of Townsend, Washington, where she the 1987 and 1991 Quilt National spends half of each year. Catalogs. Caryl has lectured and conducted Caryl's work can be found in public, workshops for quilt and textile arts museum, corporate, and private groups throughout the United States, collections in twenty-two states and and in eleven foreign countries on five seven foreign countries. Collections continents. Her goal as a workshop include: The Museum of Art and leader is to help each student find the Design (NY), National Quilt Museum, key to her/his personal creative style. Visions Art Museum, Rocky Since 1983, Caryl's work has been Mountain Quilt Museum, Illinois exhibited extensively throughout North America, Europe, Japan, and the Pacific Rim. She has had twelve solo exhibitions, including a 1992 exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, and a 2000 exhibition in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Caryl has won Best of Show at the Much more information about Caryl, International Quilt Festival (2009) and including contact information, is State Museum, International Quilt the American Quilters Society Show available on her website at: Study Center, Wilmette (IL) Public (1989, 1995, 2000). Her quilts have www.bryerpatch.com Library, Bradley University Library, also won Best of Show in more than a Glendale (CA) Civic Center, Fidelity dozen other national and international Investments Inc., Sprint, and Fritz Caryl Bryer Fallert • Bryerpatch Studio • 502 N. 5th St. • Paducah, KY 42001 • 270-444-8040 • www.bryerpatch.com • 3/25/2013 Both my geometric color studies, and Artists Statement my more organic, curved seam abstracts are inspired by visual impressions, collected in my travels, in my everyday life, and in my imagination. Although some of my quilts include pictorial images, my work is most often about seeing, experiencing, and imagining, rather than pictorial representation of any In addition to my ongoing series of specific object or species. My colorful fantasy works, I am also intention is to focus on positive making a series of quilts from images energy and depict that in my work. For as long as I can remember, I have scanned and manipulated in the expressed myself through artwork. computer and printed directly on My formal training was primarily in fabric with archival ink jet inks. design, drawing, and studio painting. After many years of painting, sewing, and experimenting with other media, I discovered that fabric, as used as a fine art medium, best expressed my personal vision. Since 1982, I have been a quilt maker, i.e., my work is constructed from layers of fabric, stitched together with batting or other filler between the layers. I love the tactile qualities of cloth, and the unlimited color range made possible The focus of my work is on the by hand dyeing and other surface qualities of color, line, and texture, I intend for my quilts to be seen and design techniques. My quilts begin which will engage the spirit and enjoyed by others. It is my hope that with white, 100% cotton fabric. The emotions of the viewer, evoking a they will lift the spirits and delight the fabric is dyed, painted and printed to sense of mystery, excitement, or joy. eyes of those who see them. create the palette of colors and visual texture used in piecing and appliquéing my images. I am constantly learning, as I find new images in my imagination and Textures, created by layering, develop the techniques to create them pleating, embroidering, and quilting, Illusions of movement, depth, and in cloth. As a teacher I believe that invite the viewer to touch, as well as luminosity are common to most of my the magic of art lies in our heads and look. work. The inner glow is created by in our hearts. I love sharing my hand dyeing or painting my fabrics in techniques with others so they can gradual progressions from light to share their magic with me. dark. Caryl Bryer Fallert • Bryerpatch Studios • Paducah, KY & Port Townsend, WA • 270-444-8040 • www.bryerpatch.com • 3/25/2013 Collections 2002: Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Artistry 1997 Museum Collections 2000: Thirty Most Influential Quilt Makers in The Arts Center. at Old Forge, Old Forge, the World -Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL NY -Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY 1999: 100 Most Important Quilts of the 20th 1993 Century -National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL 1997: Pfaff Award for Machine Artistry, -Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum., Golden, CO Synott Associates, Chicago, IL Houston, TX 1992 Public Collections 1991: Illinois Quilters Hall of Fame, Land of -Wilmette Pubic Library- Wilmette, IL Lincoln Quilt Association Ginza Quilt-Eye Gallery,Tokyo, Japan, -Glendale Public Services Building, Glendale, 1986: Masterpiece Quilt Award, National College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL IL Quilting Association 1988 -Central Missouri State University, American Gallery of Quilts and Textiles, Warrensburg, MO Solo Exhibitions Gig Harbor, WA -Bradley University Library, Peoria, IL Upcoming 1986 -International Quilt Study Center, U. of The Monroe Gallery, Chicago, IL Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 2013 30 Quilts for 30 Years: Solo, traveling Quilting by the Lake Symposium, -National Weather Service Training Center, exhibition celebrating 30 years of making Cazenovia, NY Kansas City, MO art quilts. 1985 Corporate Collections - International Quilt Market & Festival, American Gallery of Quilts and Textiles, -Beardsworth Consulting Group, Inc, Houston TX, Oct. 25-Nov. 3, 2013 Gig Harbor, WA Flemington, NJ - National Quilt Museum, Paducah KY, Dec. -Bernina of America, Aurora, IL 6, 2013 to Mar. 11, 2014 Small Group Exhibitions -Deluxe Check Printers - Lenexa, KS - Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, 2008 -Fairfield Processing, Danbury, CT Aug.1 –Sep. 21, 2014 Masters Art Quilts: (invitational) -Fidelity Investments - Covington, KY Past International Quilt Festival, Houston & traveling Oct.2008-Feb. 2010 -Fritz Gegauf A.G.-Steckborn, Switzerland 2008 -Kirkhaven Nursing Home, Rochester, NY Yokahama Quilt Festival, Yokahama, Japan 2007 -Mark Twain Bancshares Corp, 2007 Give & Take: St Louis, MO Rocky Mountain Quilt Mus., Golden CO -International Quilt Study Center, U of -Quilts Inc., Houston TX 2006 Nebraska, Lincoln, NE -R.R.Street &Co. Inc., Naperville, IL International Quilt Festival, Silver Star -The Riffe Gallery, Q, 77 S. High -Sprint Services -Nashville, TN Salute, Houston, TX Street, Columbus, OH 43215 -Sprint Corporation, MD 2005 2000 Private Collections LaConner Quilt Museum, LaConner WA. Museum of Fine Art, Dubuque, IL, 2003 1997 -Robert & Barbara Hunter, Atlanta GA Little White School Museum, Oswego, IL -Marvin Fletcher, Athens, OH Lake Forest College Art Gallery, Lake 2001 Forest, IL -Robert & Ardis James -Chappaqua, NY Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM -Ray & Susan Scott - Pintlala, AL Seasons and Signs, Eight Women in Burlington Arts Center, Burlington, ON, Fiber, Stocker Arts Center Gallery, -Tim & Jeanie Freeman - Tualatin, OR Canada Elyria, OH -Warren & Betty Rosenthal - Lexington, KY 2000 -Mrs. Yukiko Nakao - Nagoya, Japan Kendall College, Evanston, IL, Everson Arts Center: Syracuse, NY -Bob & Joan BechtelL, Midland, TX 1999 1994 -Timm & Peggy Crull, Pasadena, CA Kauai Cultural Arts Center, Kauai, HI Contemporary Quilts: Four Visions in -Tadakatsu YamazukiI, (President) Gat Co 1996-97 Fiber, Stocker Center Gallery, Elyria, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan Spectrum: The Textile Art of Caryl Bryer OH -Naoki Adachi, Toppan Printing Co. - Fallert, 1983-1995 1991 & 1993 Ltd.Tokyo, Japan -Museum of the American Quilters Barrington Area Arts Council Gallery, -Numerous other private collections Society, Paducah KY Barrington, IL -The Illinois Art Gallery: State of Illinois 1989 Special Awards Building, Chicago, IL Viewpoints: Textile