For Immediate Release
Erma Martin Yost
Feltworks, Hand-Felted Stitched Constructions
January 29 – February 16, 2008
Reception: Saturday, February 2, 4-6 pm
Erma Martin Yost exhibits Feltworks, pictorial and poetic metaphors constructed of richly dyed and densely stitched handmade felt.
Trained as a painter, Yost adopted the archaic form of handmade felt as her new creative canvas. In this medium, saturated colors migrate through the entire structure, resulting in sophisticated and sensuous surfaces. Yost enhances these surfaces with stitching, monoprinting and appliqué, devising a language of symbolic images and archetypal forms. Shells, honeycombs and cocoons become visceral sanctuaries of safety, serenity and solitude. In Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Carol Westfall wrote, “These richly imbricated, poetic images are dense with metaphor and call upon the viewer to take great care to comprehend all of the exquisite subtleties embedded in the surfaces.”
Sea Secrets 14” x 18”
This is Yost's 17th solo exhibition at Noho Gallery. Her work is in the permanent collection of the American Crafts Museum and was included in their New Acquisitions exhibit in 1995. In 2006, Yost participated in the Allentown Art Museum’s Affordable Art Soiree, curated by Jacqueline Atkins, Curator of Textiles. Yost received New Jersey Council on the Arts fellowships in 1991 and 1999. Through the New Jersey Art Annual: Crafts exhibitions, her work has been exhibited in the Jersey City Museum, the Newark Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, the Hunterdon Museum, and the Morris Museum. Her work is included in twenty-one books, including The Art Quilt Book by Robert Shaw and Object Lessons published by GUILD, Inc. Most recently Yost's work is included in Fiberarts Design Book 7, edited by Susan Mowery Kiefer. Examples of Yost's work are on view at www.nohogallery.com.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11-6 pm
Pre-show contact: 201-432-3272; ermaleon@gmail.com
Digital images available upon request
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Irving Barrett
Jeanne Butler
Rebecca Cooperman
A.K. Corbin
Jordi Forniés
Chris Green
Diana Freedman-Shea
Jessica Fromm
Sheila Hecht
Marilyn Henrion
Anne Kolin
Bruce Laird
Nancy Staub Laughlin
Daniele Marin
Pat Feeney Murrell
Basha Ruth Nelson
Siena Porta
StephanieRauschenbusch
Tina Rohrer
Myron Rubenstein
Joy Saville
von Schmidt
Erma Martin Yost
Leon Yost
Judy Zeichner
Joan Zuckerberg