About the Artist:
Chris Motley has been knitting for many years, and recently took her knitting a step further, creating sculpture with yarn. Her knitted sculptures have been exhibited in galleries across America.
Education/professional
experience:
Workshops: Kansas City Art Institute, California College of Craft and Design
BA, History and Sociology 1970
JD, 1976
Selected Exhibitions:
Juried Shows, 2011
-Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA 43d Annual Textiles Exhibition
-Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY ‘Fantastic Fibers 2011’
-Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS “National Fiber Directions 2011”
-somethings looming Gallery, Reading, PA “SIZE matters”
-Handweaver’s Guild of America, Tennessee State Museum,Nashville, TN “Small Expressions”
-Pacific Art Guild, Palo Alto, CA “Figures and Faces”
Juried Shows 2010
-Joan Mondale Gallery, The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
‘Metaphoric Fibers; Untamed Knitting and Crochet’
-Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY ‘Fantastic Fibers 2010’
-VisArts, Rockville, MD ‘Wearable Art, Un-Wearable Fashion’
-Greater Reston Art Center, ‘gaps’, juried by Vesula Sretonovic
-Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA ‘Faces and Figures’, juried by Rene Guzman
-Marin Museum of Contemporary art, ‘Solitude’ (Honorable Mention)
Juried Shows 2009
-Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA ‘Touch’ (Second Prize)
-Innovations in Fiber, St. Louis, MO St. Louis Artists' Guild
‘Head to Toe: From the Funky to the Sublime’
-The Spare Room, San Francisco, CA. ‘The Fiber Show’
-Museum of Craft + Design, San Francisco, CA; ‘Birds and Their Dwellings’
Fiber Dimensions Shows
Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA
Affiliations:
American Craft Council, Surface Design Association, Fiber Dimensions |
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