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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Lou Ann Smith recently returned home from the Quilt National 2015 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Ohio, where her beautiful abstract quilt known as “Leaf 2” was one of just 86 quilts selected for the ...

New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art during New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Members of Art Quilts Maine were challenged to find inspiration from ...

In 2002, the art world was rocked to its foundation by a group of unusual, abstract quilts made by African American women from Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Gee’s Bend was settled by local slaves in the 19th ...

“Journey to Japan,” is the fourth and final part of the seminal exhibition “Abstract Design in American Quilts” now on display at the International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

For years, Amish quilts from Lancaster County decorated the San Francisco headquarters of Esprit. Company co-founder Doug Tompkins collected abstract quilts and hoped their design, color and ...

A new exhibit brings to light the brilliant, bold and dynamic quilts created by a group of women who live in the isolated, African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Ala. Like many American quilters, the ...