Fractured Images – Different Viewpoints
excerpts from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette article by Patricia Lowry, April 14, 2010, permission granted to reprint
First there was Cubism, then photographic collages and now – Slice Quilts, quilted fractured images that appear to come from different viewpoints because they are usually created and sewn by different people.
Slice quilts are another step in the progression of group quilting activities: quilting bees, album quilts, friendship quilts, scrap exchanges and round robin quilts.
Creating landscape quilts has grown in popularity in the last decade, in step with the production by leading textile manufacturers of printed “landscape” fabric – near photo quality depictions of natural features such as tree bark, leaves, brick, clouds, grass and characteristic garden scenes.
Pittsburgh, by members of the Three Rivers Quilters
similar view Seventh Street Bridge, Pittsburgh
Of the four panel depiction of the Seventh Street Bridge over the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh and named Pittsburgh, project organizer Nancy Reigel said, “Finding the right fabric, machine stitch and assembly technique was part of the challenge, but the most difficult thing was getting the right perspective.” Four members from the Three Rivers Quilters created this wall panel.
Three Manatees, a slice quilt by Beverly Hart
Three Manatees is a slice quilt made by Beverly Hart, who is one of a group of 6 “slice quilters” in Utah, USA. Bev’s quilt was modeled after a water color artwork she had purchased from Key West artist George Salhofer. George has given Bev his permission to make a quilted version of his artwork, to exhibit the quilt in a quilt show and to show his artwork in this blog post.
 Three Manatees, detail |
 Manatees, original art by George Salhofer |
 Russian Domes Slice Quilt |
 photo inspiration for Russian Domes |
Russian domes were depicted in this slice quilt named Russian Domes, organized by Joyce Hartley.
 A Tuscan Kitchen, Stephen Rothfeld |
A Tuscan Kitchen, a slice quilt available to view on the Quilt Art website, is a 16 part fractured depiction derived from this 1999 calendar photograph taken by Stephen Rothfeld. |
| A similar photo of Frank Stella’s sculpture, Prince of Homburg, was sliced up and interpreted by about 12 quilters to create the quilt shown here at the Quilt Art Website. |
 Prince of Homburg, sculpture by Frank Stella |
I would be happy to post photos of any slice quilts that my readers have made. Please contact me if you have examples of slice quilts to add to this collection.
