Bauhaus Brasil
Cathy Miranker
33 x 71.5 inches
2023
ARTIST STATEMENT
Bauhaus Brasil embodies my aesthetic as a modern quilter: a love of abstract design, minimalist geometries, and hard-edge, solid colors.
The quilt delights in the strict geometries of the Bauhaus movement while adding contemporary sizzle. Vibrant, saturated colors and many different contiguous geometric shapes also honor the exuberant mosaic tile art of Brazilian artist Athos Bulcão (1918–2008), whose work graces buildings throughout Brasília.
MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES
Commercial cottons, most from Marcia Derse’s Palette Collection.
Design components cut using paper templates, pieced by machine, and quilted by the maker on a hand-guided, domestic sewing machine.