Exhibits
2012
Invitational Group Exhibition
January 14 - March 31, 2012
Perlow-Stevens Gallery, Columbia, Missouri.
http://www.perlow-stevensgallery.com
Smithsonian Craft Show
April 19-22, 2012
National Building Museum, Washington DC. Exhibition and sale of contemporary American crafts. Juried by Lloyd Herman, David McFadden and Jo Lauria.
2011
Quilt National
September 2011
Travels from the opening venue, The Dairy Barn in Athens, Ohio, to The Foundry, St. Charles, MO
Presented in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles 2011
www.foundryartcentre.org
Fiber Focus
September 16 - October 23, 2011
Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Juried by Lia Cook.
Presented in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles 9.
www.artstlouis.org
www.innovationsintextiles.com
Speaking of Fibers
September 19 - November 1, 2011
Juried by Victoria Payne Crowder. Presented by the Missouir Fiber Artists in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles 9, Morton J. May Foundation Gallery, Maryville University, St. Louis, MO.
www.missourifiberartists.com
SIUE Textile Arts Alumni Exhibition
August 19-October 7, 2011
Invitational, celebrating the group of artists mentored by Professor Laura Strand
Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, IL
Quilt National
May 27-September 4, 2011
Dairy Barn, Athens Ohio.
Fantastic Fibers
April - May, 2011
International juried fiber exhibit, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, MO
2010
A New Way of Seeing October 9 - November 14
Group photography exhibition at Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri. Opening reception Thursday, October 14, 5-7pm
June 6-June 23, 2010
Old Orchard Gallery, 39 South Old Orchard, in Webster Groves, features select works from recent Missouri Botanical Garden exhibit.
Garden of Memories
March 19 through May 23
Solo exhibit of twenty-five textile and photographic works. Missouri Botanical Gardens, Monsanto Hall, upper level of the Ridgway Visitor Center, St. Louis, MO.
This exhibit featured 25 works on cloth that explored time and memory through photographic images of plants. In one process, I carefully stitch garden flowers and leaves to linen and old tea towels, allowing them to age slightly before photographing the composition. In others, I explore ideas of memory and capture shadows and silhouettes of plants in the winter sunlight. The photographs are printed onto prepared flour-sack-cloth dishtowels (a metaphor for lost domestic rituals) and silk fabric through a wide format ink-jet printer. Detailed sections of the print are created then layered and stitched onto the cloth marking time, referencing Japanese Boro textiles and earlier domestic practices of mending and repair, reuse and re-purposing. In the 20 narrow works, 36" x 16", the titles and flowers are chosen because of their historical symbolic meanings. In the upper section of these pieces, the flower composition suggests classic botanical illustrations. The photographs in
the lower section of each work references earth/land. I am standing beside of January Light
Fiber 2010
April 16 - May 14, 2010
A national juried textile exhibition, Kay Khan, juror. Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
Two pieces selected for exhibition Stone Silence and Repose.
ArtQuilt Elements
April 17 - May 19
An international juried exhibition, Jason Pollen, Robin Schwalb and Deborah Warner. Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA.
Touch, 18"x18" stitched piece
2009
ELEMENTS - The Art of Textile Collage
September 11 - October 25
Craft Alliance, 6640 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63130
This exhibition is in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles 8, a biennial collaborative event.
Vestige - New Works on Cloth
May 25 - June 27
Photographic images of botanicals, cloth, and skin, layered with actual textiles and hand-stitching to create a subtle, conceptual depiction of time and transience.
This exhibit is part of the Fiber Arts Tour & Exhibitions (FATE) in Columbia, Missouri, and will be presented at the Boone County National Bank, 8th & Broadway.
2008
Groundwork - Luanne & Roger Rimel
April 4 - May 6
This exhibit features the textile work of Luanne Rimel and metalwork of Roger Rimel. Luanne's intimate photographs of plants stitched to cloth explore time, memory and aging. Roger's work references the patterns and textures found in aeriel perspectives of land forms, expressed in gold and silver.
Bonsack Gallery, John Burroughs School, 755 South price Road, St. Louis, MO 63124, 314-993-4040
2007
Photography and Textiles in Conversation
September 7 - October 13
On display at Ellen Curlee Gallery, this exhibition co-showcases Luanne's show "Works on Cloth" and Liz Rideal's show "Works about Cloth". Exhibition is part of Innovations in Textiles 7, a biennial symposium featuring contemporary textile art presented by 17 galleries in the St. Louis area.
Craft Alliance Faculty Exhibition
July 13 - August 26
This exhibition highlighted the extraordinary skill of the faculty at Craft Alliance, where Luanne is the Senior Director of Education & Exhibition Programs. Luanne's piece Veiled Prayers was on display in the exhibition.
Mapping the Territory
May 18 - July 1
Curated by Luanne and on display at Craft Alliance, this exhibition featured works that examined the idea of mapping, both literally and abstractly.