My-Art

Fiber Art Pieces:

My art pieces:

I work mainly in fabrics and textiles using multimedia. I am now showing my new 3-d fabric sculptures!! My fiber art work may be inspired by the subject, a person, the use, found objects or form. Fabrics, papers, lino block prints, nature prints and all manner of embellishments are my materials. Sewing machines, cameras, printers, paints, and threads are my tools. My fabrics comes from many sources: old coffee and flour sacks, primed canvas, hand woven, dyed cloth, custom printed/created cloth, and commercially produced fabric. My art quilts and objects emerge from many creative crevices and muses. Sometimes it is a word or phrase. Other times it is the purpose that determines how the art piece will develop.

I make custom pieces for shows, special gifts for weddings, birthdays, celebrations, babies, etc. My desire is to bring both delight and beauty to form and function with thoughtful, customized art. Click the envelope to email me your ideas and needs,

Cellular and Botanical Fiber Art pieces:

My work in this area was initially inspired by the botanical and cellular photography of Dr. Terry Ashley (terryashleybontancials.com) . I fell in love with her plant cells patterns in her 2011 Botancial Chords photography exhibit at the NC Arboretuem! We are both intrigued with how fabric can become 3-D and has more depth, sometimes than photos on paer. As a botanist, scientist and artist, Terry not only understands plant cells, but captures their beauty under the microscope. Terry and I collaborate to produce custom printed fabrics using actual cell designs for me to use in 2-D and 3-D artwork. I am now printing her layered photos on cloth, embellishing, and sculpting fabric. Being free to combine media opens many doors to unlimited possibilities for enhancing fabric. Customized pieces are my specialy and I love to take a favorite plant, and explore the ways I may represent it in cloth and 3-D.

Cattails- Inside Outside- textured, 3D detail of cattails on enlarged cell pattern of the plant.

See full Piece in My Gallery.

To veiw and purchase Karen-Eve's custom made art,

go to instagram Kareneveart and this site.

Please contact me on my email after viewing My Gallery on this site.

EXHIBITIONS

2021- Jan 22- March 13The Dariy Barn,Athens OH, "Women of Appalachia" Fine Art Show - 2 pieces

2020-" Bring Us Your Best" juried art show (virtual) Hendersonville NC, Arts Council - Earth: Hanging by a Thread

2019 June 30 @ Grove Park Inn, Signature Event Art Auction

May 17-18 Garden Of Quilts Show WNCQ Guild- First Place, Honorable Mentions, Judges Choice!

Jan 12- April 14

-NC Arboretum Education Center "Cross Pollination" A four-woman show in Fiber, Photographs, & Clay

2018- Bring Us Your Best Juried Show- Ribbon winner in 2-d for 'Balancing Act';

Artscape Banner in downtown street show with 'Umbrella Magnolia'

2017- Asheville Airport Art Gallery, March 15-June 15

2016- Sacred Art Show – Grace Lutheran, Hendersonville NC June Permanent Collection

Brown Dog Studios- Flat Rock, NC. Sept 18-25 2016

Previous Shows:

HIghbury Arts & Music Festival- London, UK 1997

NC Arboretum Show ‘Nature in Stitches’- Asheville NC Fall 2013- (Most Original Work)

Grace Lutheran Church Show- Hendersonville NC- Spring- Summer 2014

“Bring Us Your Best’- Henderson County NC Arts Council Juried Show – August 2014 (Honorable Mention- Lotus Study) & 2015 (Honorable Mention- Cattails:Inside Outside)