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Intersections 6: fiber/DIMENSIONS and Beyond

Intersections 6: fiber/DIMENSIONS and Beyond

A Group Exhibition Presented by fiber/DIMENSIONS
Generously Supported by the Presidio Trust www.presidio.gov

Herbst International Exhibition Hall, Presidio
385 Moraga Ave San Francisco, CA 94129
415-441-3400

December 19, 2013 – January 12, 2014
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 5-7pm
Hours: Friday - Wednesday 11am - 5pm, Thursdays 11am-7pm
December 24 and Dec 31: 11am-3pm, Closed Christmas and New Years Day

"Intersections 6: fiber/DIMENSIONS and Beyond" is an exhibition of more than 40 fiber artists whose works eclipse the boundaries of tradition.

fiber/DIMENSIONS artists bring a diversity of disciplines to their contemporary dimensional work, from weaving, felting, and paper making to woodworking, printing, and welding. The artists mix mediums and materials into forms that transcend definition. The vitality and potential of the materials is what unites them in their unique fiber/DIMENSIONS collaborative. "Intersections 6" is curated by Lisah Horner, San Francisco Bay Area artist and curator. 

A San Francisco Bay Area art presence that has achieved international recognition, fiber/DIMENSIONS is the realization of its founders' vision. In 1990 a group that had participated in a compelling college fiber sculpture program, taught by Carole Beadle, launched a forum to sustain that moment um.  The collective chose the name fiber/DIMENSIONS  and developed a monthly schedule of discussions, critiques, tours, guest speakers, and demonstrations.

fiber/DIMENSIONS has presented 13 group exhibits, most notably "Intersections" presented biannually in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010 at the San Francisco Presidio, previously sponsored by Fort Mason Foundation grants. “Intersections 6: fiber/DIMENSIONS and Beyond” is generously supported by the Presidio Trust, www.presidio.gov. Exhibits have been featured in Artweek and reviewed in Fiberarts Magazine and Surface Design Journal. Fiberarts Design Book Six selected submissions from 36 countries to represent the scope of contemporary fiber art; six were fiber/DIMENSIONS artists. Fiberarts Design Book Seven included eight f/D artists.

Fiber/DIMENSIONS Artist Members
Regula Allenspach Weill, Ventana Amico, JoAnn Bautista, Carole Beadle, Gerry Beers, Juline Beier, Marie Bergstedt, Allegra Burke, Judy Calder, Jeanette Carr, Alexandra Cefalo, Susan Doyle, Katy Drury Anderson, Carol Durham, Emily Dvorin, Deble Faulkner, Roy Forest, Alex Friedman, Rose Marie Ginsburg, Kathryn Grothe, Beth Hartmann, Susan Heller, Cynthia Jensen, Marty Jonas, Shoko Kageyama Klyce, Giselle Kappus, Diana Keevan, Marcia Kent, Joan Klein, Pamela Leith, Wendy Lilienthal, Lucia Matzger, Marja McAuley, Chris Motley, Thorley Murray, Nancy Ziegler Nodelman, Melody Oxarart, Ursula Pedersen, Joanne Salz, Judith Samborski, Laurel Shackelford, Jennifer Kim Sohn, Margaret Starrett, Myrna Tatar, Joyce Tayer, Phyllis Thelen, Cecelia Thorner, Sheila Tuffanelli, Stuart Wagner, Melissa Woodburn.

Fiber/DIMENSIONS ARTIST MEMBER QUOTES:
Laurel Shackleford: “While wandering in the Presidio in 2004 I happened upon a sculpture exhibit by Fiber Dimensions artists that changed my life. The docent explained that most of the art was made by people who studied fiber sculpture with Carole Beadle at the College of Marin. I had the job of my dreams in Monterey, but that day I decided to leave and commute."

Marcia Kent: “f/D artists explore a wide range of techniques, use many media (metal, handmade paper, wire, found objects, silk, tire shreds, sand, wax, thread and much more).  Over the years, the artists in the group have stimulated each other, have investigated new techniques and have learned from one another. Intersections VI, our sixth show at the Presidio, will demonstrate how much we have individually and collectively evolved.” 

Diana Keevan: “A class with Carol Beadle and one cannot ignore fiber ever again.”  “New ideas, new materials, experimentation, these are the elements that drive my art.”

Shoko Kageyama Klyce: “I was drawn to the organic nature of fiber as material for my work as it is all around us I vegetable, mineral, and animal form. Materials spanning from paper, metal cans, coffee filters, tree bark, cloth, sanitary products to human hair, etc., became alive with possibility! The limitless potential of "fiber" coupled with boundless dimensionality in space is what I find most thrilling about fiber/DIMENSIONS as an art form and collective.”

Katy Drury Anderson: “I wandered into a Fiber Dimensions show in Corte Madera and, to my delight, discovered an amazing array of hand-made paper, repurposed coffee filters, hog’s gut sculptures, and beautiful weavings. The friendly gallery sitters were the showing artists who had all met in Carole Beadle’s Fiber Art Class at the College of Marin.  I was so excited that I enrolled in Carole’s class the following semester. When I wandered into that show twenty years ago, little did I know I was discovering an artistic goldmine."

Susan Heller: “Fiber artists speak the language of the eye. We are storytellers using various and often-unexpected materials to explore emotions, events, a point of view, a simple truth.”

CURATOR for Intersections 6: Lisah Horner received her degree in painting and printmaking from Ringling College of Art in Sarasota, FL. Her work has been shown throughout the United States and was featured in the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, in Florence, Italy. She has also combined her career as a fine artist with a career in the professional arts. Lisah is a former director of ACCI Gallery in Berkeley (2005-2013), Artisans Gallery in Mill Valley (2001-2004), was the founding Executive Director of the Alameda Art Center, and an Arts Commissioner for the City of Berkeley. 

She has been interviewed by Stanford Magazine, as well as radio stations KPFA and KQED, and was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered." In her various positions as gallery director, she produced over 100 regional and national juried exhibitions. In September 2012 she curated and installed her first international exhibition of fiber and works on paper for Corsica, France. www.lisahhorner.com                                                           
 FIBER DIMENSIONS: 415-505-4823, info@fiberdimensions.com   www.fiberdimensions.com
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