O’Hanlon Center for the Arts' “Fiber Arts” exhibit runs through June 27. (Photo by Dana Kelly) A detail of Susan Doyle's piece in "Fiber Arts." (Photo by Barry Willis) Marin resident Arlene Wohl’s work is featured in "Fiber Arts.
" (Photo by Barry Willis) Anne Hermann Lamborn's work is featured in “Fiber Arts." (Photo by Barry Willis) Alex Friedman's "World in Tatters" is in “Fiber Arts." (Photo by Barry Willis) Art for art’s sake is in full bloom at Mill Valley’s O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, now hosting a large-scale “Fiber Arts” exhibit through June 27.
Juried by Carole Beadle, the exhibit is a collection of works by more than 90 artists, all but one of them female. Pieces on display range from simple design exercises and folk craft to intensely personal expressions and ambitious political statements. “Rice” by San Rafael quilter Patricia Bruvry, near the gallery’s entry, is a quilt that evokes a time-honored craft, reminiscent of touring exhibits such as “The Quilters of Gee’s Bend” that generated much enthusiasm in San Francisco some years ago.
Around the corner from this piece is a wall-mounted installation of a couple dozen small sculptures by former teacher Annelies Atchley. Her “Basket Meditation” is a collection of flexible little woven baskets each about the size of a coffee cup, every one of them covered in barnacles of beads, buttons and whatever found objects tweaked the artist’s curiosity. Atchley encourages art enthusiast.
