Theresa MacKnight and Donna Young opening Oct. 20 and running until Nov. 30
Dress, by Theresa MacKnight
				Donna Young is a designer quilter from Fredericton, whose work has been shown and won awards across Canada and the U.S. “When I quilt,” she writes, “I am not thinking about cutting and sewing  fabric. Rather, I am assessing the pattern and motion each piece will add to the whole. Light and shadow are more important than colour. The narrative of the piece is more important than what is depicted. “My joy in working with fabric is in making original, pieced, art quilts. I start with a theme from my environment or from an idea that's been swirling around in my head. That idea germinates, the research, sketching and photographing get done and finally a piecing style is chosen. From this point onward, I just let the quilt evolve.”
Theresa MacKnight, a Saint John native, is an artist and art teacher living in Miramichi.  A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of At and Design, and UNB (education), she started painting mannequins shortly after finishing her home studio five years ago as a kind of anti--fashion statement. “I don’t profess to speak for all painters, but when I paint in my own studio and space, I experience a reverie that opens the mind and allows me to wander back and forth through time,” she wrote. “I think about my own life experiences and memories. These become intertwined and indistinguishable from the painting and making that goes on. When I first found the mannequins and started painting them, I intended a series that would explore the image of woman in fashion, pop culture and art history. I wanted to create odalisques for department stores. As I started to paint, however, they started to take on a life of their own.”
					Redwoman and Odalisque by Theresa MacKnight
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