Artist Joyce Martelli, of Rochester, never plans her pieces. “When I am in a creative zone, I just go to my studio and start painting,” she said. “How I feel that day is represented on the material.” ...

Mary Mathews has come a long way since her first log cabin crazy quilt in 25 years. She started improvising and learned to see her art with a different lens. Duluth abstract quilter Mary Mathews ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. The geometric designs and vivid colors suggest modern abstract art, but the items in a new exhibition at the ...

Are you familiar with the term "abstract landscapes?" Hmm. Sounds like an oxymoron, you say? That's what Shirley Gisi thinks, too, yet she admires some oil paintings of the Southwest that are referred ...

To look at Elizabeth Scott’s quilts is to see a world of life and a world of art. They refer back to her African ancestors’ way of making fabrics, and they resemble abstract art. They reflect her ...

The Schweinfurth Art Center's annual "Quilts=Art=Quilts" show showcases the best of contemporary quilt-making. This year, a companion exhibit will showcase what came earlier. Opening Oct. 29 alongside ...

When we think of quilts and quilting, we often remember the quilts that our mothers or grandmothers made. They were patchwork pieces with many repetitions of the same block in orderly rows. While ...