Marilyn Henrion
Born 1932, Brooklyn, New York
Maintains a studio in Hawley, Pennsylvania
After studying graphic design at Cooper Union and
Fordham University and working as a career counselor
at the Fashion Institute of Technology for twenty
years, Marilyn Henrion retired in 1989 to devote
herself to her quilt making. She began making
traditional quilts in 1979, and started
experimenting with her own original designs after
attending a workshop by quilt artist Nancy Crow in
1986. This work, the second in the Byzantium
series, is inspired by Byzantine arches that she has
seen in her travels, and it symbolizes both real and
metaphoric passages. |
Byzantium II 拜占庭 II
Silk
Machine piecing, hand quilting
168 x 173 cm
1998
Gift of Rosemary and Milton Okun to
the
Museum of Art and Design
Photo: Eva Heyd
"Color,
line, and form are used much as a poet employs words
to convey a particular emotion or idea. As in
poetry, the metaphorical images are meant to
resonate, being both themselves and something else
they may suggest to the viewer." |
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