February 26, 2018

Exploration & Innovation at The Front Porch Gallery

California Fibers: Exploration & Innovation was at the Front Porch Gallery in Carlsbad, CA, from May 21-July 8, 2017. If you didn't make it to the show, here's what you missed.


Michael F. Rohde's pieces Jubilant and Dichotomy, flanking Mary Beth Schwarzenberger's Flower Power Redux


Doshi, Stone Steps


Mary Beth Schwarzenberger's Sunrise Sunset


Detail of Sunrise Sunset


Linda Anderson's Joshua Is Jazz


Gail Fraser's Web of Threads I and II


Gail Fraser's June Doom


Doshi, Garden Secrets


Kathy Nida's Earth Daughter and Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's Marking Time #9


Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's Marking Time #9, Lynne Hodgman's Twining Prepositions, and Kathy Nida's By All Means


Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's Marking Time #9


Kathy Nida's Earth Daughter


Kathy Nida's By All Means


Lynne Hodgman's Split Infinitives


Linda Anderson's Musicman of Jaipur


Doshi, Garden Secrets


Cameron Taylor-Brown, Majestic Stone: Pisac Ruins, Peru, and Majestic Stone: Machu Picchu, Peru


Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Hidden Refuge


and a detail of Hidden Refuge


A side view of Lynne Hodgman's Flowing Subjunctives


And a detail of Flowing Subjunctives...


Charlotte Bird, End of the Season


Lori Zimmerman, Mending 1.4


Zimmerman's Mending 2.0


A closeup of Zimmerman's Mending 1.2


Chari Myers, Indigo Rhapsody


Charlotte Bird, Fruiting Body #10


Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Web of Textures


Rebecca Smith, Contexture


Polly Jacobs Giacchina, If It Moves


Peggy Wiedemann, Springtime Nest


Peggy Wiedemann, In Celebration of Twirling (pedestal) and smaller pieces by Lydia Tjioe Hall


Lydia Tjioe Hall, Three in One


Tjioe Hall, Wood Shell and Spokes


Tjioe Hall, Copper and Steel Woven


Tjioe Hall, Steel Brass and Tigers Eye


Tjioe Hall, Spokes Wood and Bead



Rebecca Smith, Light Source


Charlotte Bird, Autumn Leaf


Michael F. Rohde, Techtonic



A view of the gallery during the opening


Another view during the opening


Another view, with artists Polly Jacobs Giacchina and Doshi in the foreground.


A view of some of the work


Another view of the gallery


A view of the front section of the gallery