#b#Fiber Arts in Plainsboro#/b#
Plainsboro Artist Liz Adams presents “Fiberarts” at Plainsboro Library Gallery through Thursday, June 28. Adams, a 30-year resident of Plainsboro, has moved among many mediums, including painting, collage, papermaking, and fiber art.
“After many years of exhibiting art in a wide variety of media, and seeing many of my pieces in national, regional, and local juried exhibits as well as in many solo shows, this is the first solo I’ve created using the fiber arts techniques and skills I have been working on over the last two years,” says Adams. “I needed to move into an artform that would accommodate my sudden fulltime responsibilities for the care of a totally disabled husband, while including him in seeing the progress and seeing him enjoying having the studio move into his room, and work around him every day.”
She learned a range of fiber arts, to spin, from raw fleece to finished yarn, and weave, to shift to freeform knitted wall hangings rather than functional items, to incorporate her handmade paper into embroideries, to dye and freeform embroider fabrics, resurrecting long-forgotten childhood skills.
“No item in this show was preplanned or sketched — all is alla prima, just plunging in to the materials and letting them talk to me,” says Adams. “Threads are healing, and they proved to be not only a rich vein of art to mine and enjoy — this exhibit is only a sample of what I produced in that time — but a great help in a time of stress for the household, a series of artforms full of learning, but which could be, and were, interrupted, many times, without losing the flow.”
“This show is about art, and about life, the excitement of new learning, and the gentle memory of Andy Adams,” says Adams, an initial founder of the gallery at the library, whose husband, Andy, died August 8, 2011. She started up many artists’ groups, including the original library art group. Her two award-winning blogs, www.fieldfen.blogspot.com and www.beautifulmetaphor.blogspot.com, present ongoing artwork, writing, and photography.
Art Exhibit, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, Plainsboro. Through Thursday, June 28. www.lmxac.org or 609-275-2897.
#b#Paintings in West Windsor#/b#
Hye Lim Chang of West Windsor is showing her artwork at Young’s Nail Studio in Southfield Shopping Center in West Windsor. A native of Korea, she learned the art of oriental painting from Hoh Baek Ryun.
In the 1990s she studied western art at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and began learning sculpture. Painting is her focus and her works mirror her mood. While some of her works features vivid colors, others are subtle and delicate colors.
She has had close to a dozen solo exhibitions around the world featuring traditional Asian subjects to the urban landscapes of America. Her next show is at Nice Gallery in Paris, September 1 to 7.
“The passion of her work, the vividness and clarity of her vision, springs from a heart that is full of emotion and has cried many tears,” writes David Chang in his book, “The Passion and Beauty of Korean Art.”
Art Show, Young’s Nail Studio, 295 Princeton Hightstown Road, Southfield Shopping Center, West Windsor. 609-275-0222.
