Artist Statement:
Using birds as representatives of nature, my work explores our relationship to the natural world. Birds are drawn and hand embroidered using thread like miniature brushstrokes. Shading and hues are created using long and short stitches, overlapping and the combining of a variety of colored silk and cotton thread. Kimono remnants and various paper and fabrics are collaged and stitched to for each piece.
Recent Exhibitions:
2016- Childhood’s End Gallery, 45th Anniversary Show, Olympia, WA. “Thumb Box Exhibition”, Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY. “Buffalo Society of Artists 125th Anniversary Show”, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY.
2015- “The Collage”, TGW Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA. “The 5 B’s”, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA. “Buffalo Society of Artists 119th Spring Exhibition”, Project 308 Gallery, Tonawanda, NY.
2014- “23rd Annual Juried Regional Artists Exhibition”, WNY Artists Group, Buffalo, NY.
2013- “Dancing Surfaces”, Surface Design Association, Phinney Art Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2012- “19th Annual Art Invitational”, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Portland, OR. Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA.
2011- “Bird as Metaphor”, Invitational, Waterstone Gallery, Portland, OR. “18th Annual Art Invitational”, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Portland, OR. “The Book as Art: Hand to Hand”, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2010- “Things we Hunt”, Allied Arts Center & Gallery, Richland, WA. “17th Annual Art Invitational”, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Portland, OR. “Divergent Paths”, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA.
2009- “Book as Art: Beyond Words”, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA. “16th Annual Art Invitational”, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Portland, OR.
2008- “Northwest Designer Craftsmen Group Show”, Museo Gallery, Whidbey Island, WA. “ICONcepts Invitational”, Two Vaults Gallery, Tacoma, WA.
2007- “International Art Exhibition Invitational”, Nature Conservancy International Conference, Portland, OR. “The Art of Building Community”, Women Beyond Borders Project, Missoula Art Museum, MT. Blue Heron Gallery, Vashon Island, WA.
2006- “Looking Forward Glancing Back: NWDC at 50”, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA. “Art Expressing Life”, Women Beyond Borders Exhibition, World Trade Center, Seattle, WA.
Education: State University College, Buffalo, NY; Textile Design SUNY at Buffalo, B.S.
Awards: Artist Trust GAP Award (Grants for Artists Project); Nature Conservancy Purchase Award.
Publications: Fiberarts Design Book 7, Susan Mowery Kieffer; Looking Forward Glancing Back, Lloyd E. Herman.
To view additional works or to contact the artist, please visit the artist's website mariehassett.com
(Source: Biographical information from the artist.)
