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Dominie Nash - Textile Art

About the Artist
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STATEMENT

I have been asked numerous times why I don’t paint instead of making quilts, since my work seems far from its traditional roots. My answer is that the work would not be the same; there are qualities inherent in art made of fabric and thread: the particular depth of the colors, the layers, and the texture of the stitches, that can’t be duplicated in another medium.  Handling and placing the fabric to create a composition is a totally different process than working with brush and canvas or paper. I don’t wish to emulate or compete with painting, but rather to make good quilts, which reflect these special characteristics.

I construct collage-like art quilts using fabrics which I have patterned with a variety of surface design processes, including immersion dyeing, painting with dyes and pigments, screen-, mono- and Inko-printing, chemical resist, and discharge. The surface is layered with dyed organza, which can enhance or change the color beneath it, and with machine stitching and embroidery.

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BIO

I am a full-time studio art quilter, primarily self-taught. First in my home studio and later in spaces in artists’ coops (currently in Washington DC), I have spent the past 20 years learning and practicing my art.

After a brief career in social work, I discovered the textile arts in the late 1960s and began to explore as many techniques and materials as I could.

 I felt I had finally found a kind of work, which would be fulfilling over the long haul. At the beginning I concentrated on weaving and dyeing, making a few quilts now and then; the number kept increasing until I realized that this was my medium. I gradually developed my own way of doing things and a personal style, which involved finding a way to do the types of designs I envisioned without using the precise techniques of traditional quiltmaking. Hence, a sort of overlapping appliqué, leaving the edges raw, was my solution. Since I didn’t know the rules, I was free to break them and to achieve the kind of spontaneity I was seeking.

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ELECTED EXHIBITIONS - SOLO AND SMALL GROUP

2017
Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown MD
2016
Library Gallery, Montpelier Art Center ,Laurel MD
Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC
2015
Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City MD
Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely MD
2014
Textures in Wax and Fiber, Crossroads Gallery, Falls Church VA
2013
Black Rock center for the Arts, Germantown MD
2012
Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick MD
2011
Counterpoint, Visions Art Museum, San Diego CA
2010
Elusive Beauty, Festival of Quilts, Birmingham UK,
1912 Gallery,Emory and Henry College, Emory VA
2007
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2005
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
2003
Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - JURIED AND INVITATIONAL

2018
Handcrafted, Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown MD 2-18
2017
Small Talk, International Quilt Study Center and Museum, Lincoln NE
Creative Crafts Council Award Winners, Glen Echoi Park, MD
The Hand-Crafted Home, Gray Gallery, Winchester VA
With These Hands,Ross Art Museum, Delaware OH,
Delaplaine Jurted Exhibit, Frederick MD,
Pushing the Surface,Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum,Coshocton OH
2015
Fiber Currents/Current Fiber,Fulton Montgomery Community College,Johnston NY 2015
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg PA, 2015
2014
Focus Fiber, Erie Art Museum, Erie PA
Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach FL
2012, 2009,2008
Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
2012
Images, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, University Park PA
2012, 2008
Southworks, OCAF, Watkinsville GA
2012 & 2008
Art Quilt Elements, Wayne PA
2011, 2009, 2003
Quilt National, Dairy Barn, Athens OH
2010
31st Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition, Mesa Arts Center, AZ
2009
Mixed Media Fber Art, Danforth Museum, Framingham MA
2008
Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego CA, Oct-Dec 2008
Material Matters, Columbus Museum of Art, OH

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2017
Art Quilting Studio, Winter 2018
Contemporary Fiber:Wall Art, Schiffer books, 2017
2014 Visual Guide to Working in a Series, Elizabeth Barton, C&T Publishers
2012
Art Quilt Portfolio: The Natural World (featured artist), Lark Books
Art Quilting Studios, December issue
2011
Colour in Art Quilts, Janet Twinn, Batsford
2010
500 Art Quilts, Lark Books
2009
Quilting Art, Spike Gillespie, Voyageur Press
Connecting Art to Stitch, Sandra Meech, Batsford
2008
Contemporary Quilt Art, Kate Lenkowsky, Indiana University Press
Surface Design Journal, Spring issue, Quilting Arts August/September issue

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SELECTED AWARDS

2016
Honorable Mention, Craft Forms, Wayne PA
2015, 2017
Second in Fiber, Creative Crafts Council Biennial, Rockville MD
2013
Potomac Fiber Arts Guild award, Creative Crafts Council exhibit, Rockville MD
2012
Honorable Mention, American Craft Today, The Bascom, Highlands NC
2012, 2001
Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council
2011
Award of Excellence, SDA Member Exhibition, Minneapolis MN
2010
Surface Design Award, Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center
2009
Creative Projects Grant, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, MD
Award of Merit, Images,Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
Juror’s Award, Mesa Arts Center
2007 & 2008
Merit Award,OCAF,Watkinsville GA
2006, 2010, 2014
DC Arts and Humanities Commission Purchase Award
Best Innovative Design, Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center

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SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Visa International, San Mateo, CA Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
Braintree District Museum, Braintree, England International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC

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