Leslie Tucker Jenison - contemporary quilts and fabric design
Leslie Tucker Jenison
Quilts that often reference a traditional design, have a useful purpose, contemporary coloration, or use the negative space in an innovative way. These objects blur the line between art and craft: they may hang on a wall or be functional.
Artist Statement The aerial “geometry” of the land as seen whilst flying over the Great Plains of the Midwest in a small aircraft is embedded in my memory growing up on the plains: rolling hills with linear elements of agriculture, dotted by farms. Since moving from the area I think a great deal about the …Read More…
Using vintage hand-pieced and basted Dresden plates rescued from an auction site, I constructed a scrappy modern quilt that combines old and new. I like to think that the maker of these Dresden plates would approve. Save
Based on the traditional quilt pattern, “Trip Around The World”, this quilt shifts the central point to create a modern, asymmetrical version. Save Save
Artist StatementMy love of gray fabrics inspired this piece, and the name is a little wink toward a phenomenon in the cultural zeitgeist. TechniqueImprovisational machine-pieced, quilted on a longarm machine. Design ProcessBeginning with the dotted cloth cut into squares, I pieced using two widths of cloth in three shades of gray. Working intuitively to balance …Read More…
