Lillian Blades' exhibition, Through the Veil, at Sarasota Art Museum represents her first institutional solo show, featuring an extensive collection of her large-scale, immersive installations. The Atlanta-based artist utilizes a multimedia approach to tapestry by incorporating various materials like fabric, stained glass, wood, and acrylic. Her works are designed to engage viewers' senses, creating colored light effects and intricate shadows that enhance the experience of pattern and texture in art. Blades expresses a desire for her art to evoke memories and personal associations with the details presented.
My patchwork veils are wired tapestries of images and texture...I want it to feel complex but simple at the same time. I want the details and the objects to carry memory and trigger viewers into thinking about their associations with certain patterns and textures.
Blades takes a multimedia approach to tapestry, combining fabric, stained glass, wood, acrylic, and found materials to create glimmering surfaces.
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