Wom Space - Gallery show and Installation
Saturday and Sunday, October 21st-22nd, 10am to 6pm
Fulton Market Art Walk
WOM space presents: Parade of Colors, a textile installation by Alice Berry
Artist Reception: Saturday, October 21st, 6pm- 9pm
845 W. Fulton Market, #207
Art at an intersection of textile design, collage and painting, Alice will show pieces using layers of fabric to create depth as well as interact with artificial and ambient light. The collages incorporate visual poetry and silk-screened images into layers of transparent and opaque fabric. On street level, there will be an installation of "fabric sketches" viewed from twenty-two eye level picture windows filled with color range pieces of transparent and opaque silks.
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Color and race - 3 Arts Chicago
3Arts Gallery
Color and Race
Alice Berry and LaShawnda Crowe Storm
Color and Race continues The Three Arts Club of Chicago's 2004 gallery series, curated by Annie Morse. Though 2004, five mid-career artists have been invited to select, in turn, an emerging artist whose work resonates in
an interesting way with their own practice. Alice Berry, an established designer, was drawn to the textile work of LaShawnda Crowe Storm.
For Color and Race, Crowe Storm and Berry collaboratively installed the 3Arts galleries. Crowe Storm's monumental quilting frame dominates the first room, while Berry's wall hangings reference the piecework that women traditionally create on such frames. In the second room, Berry has created a luminous installation of works hung in the gallery's French windows. Her work recalls paintings and sculptures by Modern and Minimalist artists and the precision of Japanese architecture, translated through the fluidity of silk.
During the exhibition opening, quilts created by The Needles and Threads Quilters Guild of Chicago will also be on view. The men and women of the Guild participated in Crowe Storm's thesis work, The Lynch Quilt Project.
Alice Berry earned her degree in fine art in 1980 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She then spent four years working in Paris for private clients, creating collections for small boutiques, and showing textiles and clothing art in galleries.
In 1984 Berry opened her first studio for the design and manufacture of couture clothing. From 1984 to 1998 she worked with designers and companies such as Junichi Arai, Japan; Memphis Design Group, Italy; La Soie de Paris, France; and Fisac, Italy, furthering her style and craft.
In 1989 Berry began to create and manufacture a line of knitwear. The first line of scarves based on interactive color theory and texture emerged in 1993. In 1995 and 1996, as a continuing investigation of her interest in color, texture and composition in design, Berry began works that were meant for interior and window treatments and these pieces were shown in galleries and homes. This more artistic direction of her work has become a separate medium to explore a developing interest.
Recently, Berry has translated concepts derived from Modern painters such as Josef Albers and Mark Rothko and others into fabric, and this work has been recognized by various museums around the country such as the Philadelphia Museum, the National Academy of Design, and the Weisman Museum, among others.
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Philadelphia Museum - Schiaparelli Exhibit
Alice Berry Studio Designs Featured in Schiaparelli Exhibition Store at Philadelphia Museum of Art
CHICAGO, IL, October 2x, 2003—Alice Berry Studio today announced that scarves and clothing designs from the current collection are featured merchandise in the exhibition store accompanying Shocking! The Art & Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli, a major exhibition on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Schiaparelli’s clothing designs combined art and fashion to create functional and beautiful clothes. She collaborated with avant-garde Parisian artists such as Salvador Dali, and her clothing and jewelry was coveted by the best-dressed women between the World Wars. This exhibit is the first important retrospective to explore Schiaparelli’s designs within a sociopolitical, intellectual and artistic context.
Adjacent to the exhibition, the Schiaparelli store at the Museum enables visitors to incorporate into their daily lives clothing, jewelry and decorative items that recall the innovative and unprecedented designs of Elsa Schiaparelli. Scarves, one-of-a-kind shawls and jackets created by Alice Berry Studio are prominently displayed as part of the selection of merchandise.
Some of the Alice Berry Studio clothing at the Museum store recalls Schiaparelli’s use of color and design. A collector of fabrics for years, Berry dove into her fabric archives and created items from Dali-esque prints of lips and eyes for the exhibit store. Other items, such at the “Petal” jacket are Surrealist-inspired pieces. This jacket with its black roses on a chiffon background creates an impression of volume, but is nearly as light as air.
“It’s very exciting that our scarves, shawls and jackets are prominently included in the Schiaparelli shop. A number of the pieces in our collection leverage Schiaparelli’s innovations and evoke Surrealist themes. Schiaparelli was a style arbiter with widespread influence, and I’m honored to be associated with her design legacy,” said Alice Berry, owner of Alice Berry Studio.
Shocking! The Art & Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli will be on view through January 4, 2004 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. More information about the exhibition is available online at www.philamuseum.org.
About Alice Berry Studio
Concentrating on color relationships amid the play of texture, sheerness and light, Alice Berry assembles fabrics for scarves, clothing and window treatments that are both incredibly functional and dynamically pleasing to the eye. For over 15 years Alice’s clothing and scarves have been worn to make a unique statement. More information about Alice Berry is available on the Web at www.aliceberry.com.
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