Ruth’s Table gallery is pleased to present Keep an Eye on the Bowl, a solo exhibition with a mixed-media quilt, collage, and fiber artist Joan Schulze.  

As a contemporary artist, Schulze bridges abstraction and minimalism, fine arts and crafts, East and West. Named a “pioneer of the art quilt movement,” Schulze has revolutionized the field of fiber arts with new quilting forms and techniques, embrace of digital tools and processes within the traditional craft form, and non-conventional visual language fused with her poetic verses, modern art, and broad cultural influences from around the world.

The title of the exhibition, Keep an Eye on the Bowl, is a reference to Schulze’s ongoing series of works inspired by an antique tea bowl gifted to Schulze during one of her visits to China. This exhibition brings together twenty-two works from 2002 to 2021 that represent Schulze’s pursuit of the possibilities of quilting and collage through experimentation, with the tea bowl theme as a continuous thread that ties them together.