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Fiber Show
Fiber Show
The Friends of the New Providence Memorial Library is hosting a Fiber show February through March 2024, showing a variety of work including quilts, handwoven textiles, and fiber sculpture by
Jude Enright, Sue Erdreich, Ritu Lalan, Gabrielle Stern, and Katie Truk
from Feb -March 2024
There will be an artists reception on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 5-7pm in the Conti Family Community Room, in the back of the library
Above(L to R): Jude Enright, Sue Erdreich, Ritu Lalan, Gabrielle Stern
Below: Katie Truk
Sue Erdreich
Sue Erdreich
Sue Erdreich : Quilting provides a medium of expression for my love of color. Through intuitive choice of fabric color and its relative placement, an overall feeling is achieved in my quilts. Working in an improvisational manner allows my work to evolve throughout the design process. I work slowly, to fully enjoy the process of making the quilt.
I am a designer with an intuitive feel for color. I have worked in design, print and digital, for the better part of 30 years. I have been sewing since I was a kid, and find immense joy in doing so. I began quilting about 18 years ago, and discovered my bliss! I belong to several quilt guilds and have served on their Boards. The guilds provide me a community of quilters with which to share my passion and inspire my creativity.
I have had quilts placed in and won several ribbons in local and national Quilt Shows. Most recently, I had a quilt shown in Mancuso’s Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza.
Jude Enright
Jude Enright
After graduating from Syracuse University with a BFA in design, Jude worked as a textile designer in NYC for several years. Her husband and she have lived in New Providence for over 50 years. When their children were younger, she took up quilting.
Jude quilts for the sheer pleasure of it; giving her quilts to family, friends and charity.
Ritu Lalan
Ritu Lalan
Exotic weaves of India are featured in Ritu's collection
India exhibits array of heritage techniques of weaves like Bananras, Temple border, Jamdhani, Mangalgiri, Patola and many more .
The exhibition highlights few of the various types of saree weaves and showcasing temple border silk saree, patola saree, banaras silk saree, and tanchoi.
Banarasi sarees are India famous for its luster and keep. They come in abundant weaves and patterns so much so that we forget the world while exploring them.
Banarasi Tanchoi is one of a few exotic weaves of proud India that exudes opulence and illume in every inch of it
Patola sari is a double ikat woven sari, usually made from silk, made in Patan, Gujarat, India. The word patola is the plural form; the singular is patolu. These saris are made using silk threads that are first dyed with natural colors and then woven together to create the intricate patterns and designs.
Temple borders feature patterns that resemble and are inspired from the structure of the temple. A row of geometric temple gopuram pattern in contrast or complementary colours, different layers of a temple, patterns found on temple walls, and motifs packed in between the lines are common in temple borders.
Gabrielle Stern
Gabrielle Stern
Gabrielle Stern is an interdisciplinary textile artist from central New Jersey. They received their BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2023. Their main processes begin with hand-dyeing and continue with weaving and printing. Often working in large scales, their pieces transform the space surrounding them with their neon colors and disorienting repeat patterns. Gabrielle has shown work in exhibitions at the Maryland Institute College of Arts in the Middendorf Gallery and in their black box theater (Bbox). Their most recent show was in October at Garden Glow: Ladew Topiary Gardens. This is their first time exhibiting close to home in New Jersey.
This collection of work includes handwoven cloth made on floor looms and a digital loom. Through pattern and image, combined with soft or metallic thread, there is an engaging play of color and shimmering cloth. Ranging from pink to purple, the entire spectrum of light is scattered on the wall. The hand-dyed neon color contrasts the disorienting and moíre patterns. The viewers' eyes are stunned by the striking and hypnotic cloth.
Katie Truk
Katie Truk
My pieces are a marriage of sensual malleability of pantyhose and the rigidity of wire. Thread binds and extends the aggression and vulnerability, echoing life’s twists, turns, and pulling within our rigorous regulations and expectations.
Pantyhose is strong yet unique in color and composition. Each has it’s own breaking point and beauty in complexity of layered strength and texture. Free of pedestal or directed viewpoint allows change in perspective which is necessary to explore the depth of understanding of the whole picture.
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