Nature is subject of hooked rug exhibit

Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:15

The Hookworks Group, six Connecticut/New York textile artists, is exhibiting The Nature of Things Hooked at the Mark Twain Library through Oct. 30.

All the works pay tribute to our natural world. Many of the pieces have elements of dimensionality not common to hooked work, and many make use of unusual textiles, techniques, threads, beads, even insects.

Tracy Jamar’s Fly Over Land I is a bird’s eye view of the terrain between New York and Minnesota, inspired by her own flights to visit family. It is topography in wool with fields, hills, streams and trees of many hues. Opposite is Marilyn Bottjer’s Old Apple Tree. The tree’s trunk and branches are loaded with apples made round by spool knitting and prody leaves.

Negative spaces created by naked tree branches inspired Liz Alpert Fay’s Winter Series, a group of seven (five exhibited) abstract hangings. Beth Kempf’s Fleur du Jour is a floral arrangement not to be missed. Alice Rudell speaks of the fabrics in her workroom as her library and cataloging the stacks of fiber as the surprise and joy that keeps her hooking. Her Windows on the Landscape is a creative merger of needlepoint and hooking. The Pond Knows Nothing of the Frog’s Passion is June Myles’s oversized beanbag amphibian. Its tummy is swirling with its recent meal and other courses are waiting to be consumed.

These are just a few of the works on display. The exhibit is open during regular library hours.

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