26 Mar Luanne Rimel

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Duane Reed Gallery proudly welcomes
back Luanne Rimel, presenting her latest collection of
collaged, hand-stitched, silk-printed photographs.

Currently focussing on quilted and soft subjects, her
delicate, repetitive treatment across the surface creates
shadows and textures and alludes to the marking of time,
and references earlier domestic practices of mending,
repair, reuse, and repurposing.

A pillar of the St. Louis arts community, Rimel served
as Director of Education at Craft Alliance of St. Louis for
over 16 years. Her work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally, including several Quilt National exhibitions,
Smithsonian Craft Shows in Washington, DC, and the book,
Art Quilts of the Midwest, published by the University of
Iowa Press.

My work explores the passage of time and lingering
memory of the present. I am drawn to cloth’s ability to
hide, reveal, obscure, and protect and I find beauty in
ephemeral “found” cloth. Photographs of protected cloth-
draped buildings under construction become metaphors
for existence and memory, alluding to bones and skin. All
of these images take on new meaning and significance as I
navigate the surfaces.

(Luanne Rimel)

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