Deidre Scherer
Long Friendship, 2025
Thread on layered fabric 14” height x 12” width x 0.25” depth, frame 21” height x 18” width x 1.25” depth
I witnessed two dear friends, both artists, contemplating their their final meeting.
Deidre Scherer
Purple Hellebore, 2025
Thread on layered fabric 12” height x 10” width x 0.25” depth, frame 19” height x 17” width x 1.25” depth
My still-life are set up in front of my cutting table where by sight I cut freely into my pallette of fabrics, using my scissors as a direct drawing tool. With multiple passes, I then layer and machine-draw the highlights and shadows that I see.
Deidre Scherer
Unfolding Weave, 2017
Ink on matte paper, chine colle 21” height x 16” width x 0.25” depth, frame: 28” height x 23” depth x 1.5” depth
I created a last portrait in thread-on-fabric. After I made two ink-on-paper prints, one became warp and one became weft which I reintegrated as a woven sheet: losing her and finding her again.
Deidre Scherer
Woven Inside Hands, 2023
Ink on matte paper, gold acrylic and chine colle 9” height x 8” width x 0.25” depth, frame: 17” height x 15” width x 1.25” depth
This process of destroying and then rebuilding expands my reflections on the opposites of dividing and uniting; knowing and unknowing; stasis and movement.
Deidre Scherer
Of Few Words, 2024
Ink on matte paper, gold acrylic and chine colle 8” height x 6” width x 0.25” depth, frame: 17” height x 15” width x 1.25” depth
I cut two prints-on-paper of my fabric original into strips to create warp and weft, and then reintegrated them into a woven sheet. The weave jumps giving a sense of movement.
Deidre Scherer
Connection, 2021
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 8 x 9.5 inches
By commission.
Deidre Scherer
Brilliance, 2023
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 11 x 10 inches
Deidre Scherer
Sisters, Sitting, 2004
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 29 x 29 inches
Now in the collection at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.
Deidre Scherer
Dad’s Last Day, 2021
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 16 x 18 inches
I worked from a drawing that I made at his bedside.
Deidre Scherer
Mother Holding Child, 2023
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 54 x 24 inches
Mindful of families, women and children surviving violence.
