Combinations of colors and shapes call to mind familiar imagery, establishing a rapport with the viewer. For the viewer, it is an invitation to experience the myriad possibilities of color and shape, and to evaluate the success of each artist in transforming the simple bull’s eye into something more.Ībstraction defines both the visual and conceptual content of these quilts. This variety is a celebration of creativity and visual experimentation. For others, the circles break their boundaries, shift in scale, or even come to dominate the entire plane. Many of the artists maintain the quadrants, with circles that vary from the rigidly geometric to wildly organic. The result is a strikingly complex body of images, with each piece conveying its own distinct voice. responded to the invitation, deconstructing and re-assembling the bull’s eye into new compositions. Artists from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.S. Curator Nancy Crow challenged the participating artists to create a unique design based upon the Bull’s Eye pattern: four circles comprised of concentric rings (the iconic target symbol), set in a grid of four blocks, or quadrants.

The 26 quilts in this exhibition–created by 24 artists–have been conceived in improvisation, in building upon or breaking down an established pattern into something new and individually expressive.

September 2017 desktop wallpaper quilt