Dorothy caldwell

Dorothy Caldwell, Pink Hill, 2013; Photo © Karen Thiessen, 2014 Pink Hill is one of a family of five intimate textiles installed together from Dorothy Caldwell's Silent Ice Deep Patience exhibition at the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Pink Hill, like her fellow earth ochre encrusted sisters, is about 18" X 24" and is mounted on industrial felt. Pink Hill has a subdued colour palette of black, pale yellow and pale pink. The loopy texture reminds me of a chenille bedspread and makes me wonder…

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Dorothy Caldwell Collecting cards (journal); Photo © Karen Thiessen, 2014 In her 2003 In Good Repair solo exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada Dorothy displayed several bound notebooks (along with white cotton gloves with which to handle them) in which she had made marks with ink and with burning/scorching. Collecting cards is a notebook in another form. One hundred and twelve cards are pinned to the wall with three-inch black specimen pins. The cards are about 2" X 3" and appear to be…

Flying Over Salt Lakes, stitching on cotton with earth ochre, approximately 13" x 16", 2013 Dorothy Caldwell has become an icon for textile artists, exhibiting and teaching around the world. We Canadians claim her as our own, as she has lived in Ontario since the mid seventies, relocating here from the USA. The images in this post are of Dorothy Caldwell's latest exhibition, Silent Ice, Deep Patience, installed in the Art Gallery of Peterborough March 21 until June 22, 2014. Left: Map…

Dorothy Caldwell

I was lucky this year to get into the workshop of my dreams--the Dorothy Caldwell Mark Making workshop at Nancy Crow 's art barn in Ohio. ...

One of a series of blocks where I experimented with leather to make marks rather than using stitches or dyes. The second block uses ant...

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Dorothy Caldwell Map without words, 2013; Photo © Karen Thiessen, 2014 With dimensions a staggering 9'4" by 8'5", Map without words is monumental. For curators and some gallery goers, size matters, and this textile, as well as four others (that I will share in future posts) deliver. Dorothy lavishes each textile with such care and detail that it frustrates me that, unless the gallery provides a skyjack, I can't see it all up close and personal. A passage from Canadian mystery author Louise…

Lake by Dorothy Caldwell, 2013; Photo © Karen Thiessen, 2014 Several months have passed since I saw the Dorothy Caldwell exhibition at...