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 ...

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 ...

The geometric designs and vivid colors suggest modern abstract art, but the items in a new exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art are actually quilts by unknown women. “Quilts and Color,” which ...

Installation view of Function to Freedom: Quilts and Abstract Expressions at Sara Kay Gallery, at left, Victoria Manganiello’s “El Trifinio” (2015)(all images by Adam Reich, courtesy Sara Kay Gallery ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Discussion of and recreation of the exhibition Abstract design in American quilts, originally held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., July 1-Sept. 12, 1971, held 1991-1992 at the ...

What’s the best abstract art ever made in America? A friend of mine enjoyed asking students this question, and when they predictably answered “Pollock,” a look of disgust would flicker across his face ...

Yvonne Wells began quilting in 1979, nearly at the age of 40, for the reason most people begin quilting: to keep herself and her family warm. Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Wells was a schoolteacher at ...

Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quilts Laura Baptiste Untitled (Old Maid's Puzzle). Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1930. This is the first quilt the Brown’s purchased, in 1976, that ...