Cheryl Hurd
The Best of the Best Juried Art Exhibition, 2017
Cheryl Hurd
Exhibiting Artist
Pepco Edison Place Gallery
702 8th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20068
August 11 - 30, 2017
Exhibiting Artist
Pepco Edison Place Gallery
702 8th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20068
August 11 - 30, 2017
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Bio
Cheryl has an extensive background in the sewing arts. Learning to sew as a small child, she began sewing clothes for herself at the age of 12. Formerly educated in fashion design, garment construction, and textiles, she began teaching, in community centers, sewing and quilting guilds and groups, retreats, fabric and quilt shops. She also teaches in her personal studio, an exciting environment for nurturing self-expression, inspiration and creativity. This soon led to a custom clothing business for two decades. Her passion for designing and sewing grew into a desire to learn traditional quilt making that has evolved into “textile art” using various mixed media and surface design to create more depth and texture into her quilts. She is a member of Uhuru Quilters Guild since 1994; The Art Sewciety, since 2005; SAQA, Studio Art Quilt Associates; The Quilt Alliance, and The Art Quilt Study Group, since 2003.
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Artist Statement
"My experience as a textile artist has been more adventurous than my beginnings as a traditional quilt maker. My attraction to quilts is the textural interest created by piecing fabrics together and the added dimension of the quilting stitch. Textured surfaces hold a deep fascination for me; such as, tree bark, roots, seeds, seashells, basketry, crumbling and cracked walls, jagged stone, rusty surfaces and peeling paint. I use various processes to determine what will most effectively convey my ideas. This begins with surface design; stomping and printing by applying paints, inks, dyes, and resists. Piecing and layering fabric and fiber to collage or to appliqué, threads, yarns, and cords are stitched, couched, or wrapped creating dimension. Contour lines are drawn With the sewing machine or by hand to outline and define; to shade, and embroider giving direction to the image.
Vessels Series: Clay Treasures In ancient times pottery was used to store and hide treasures and valuables. The contents were more valuable than the vase itself. As with human kind, our outer shell is temporary, it is fragile, it is earthbound. Our treasures lie within us. Our character, values, virtues, talents, passion are the things that will live on long after our flesh, the outer shell is gone. Envisioning the vessel motif, I could see the virtues and qualities of women; grace, nurture, fragility, sensuality femininity and the virtues required of restoration, repair and refinement." 
-Cheryl Hurd
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