Modern Chair Sampler

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Artist: Danielle Shelley

Title: Modern Chair Sampler

Attribution: Modern Chair Sampler, 2018, Danielle Shelley

Year: 2018

Materials: Thread, cotton/rayon/linen Aida fabric

Dimensions: 18" H x 18" W

Image Statement: More than anything else, classic modern chairs evoke for me my childhood home, which was filled with Mexican Bauhaus furniture collected by my parents, an architect and a weaver. My favorite was the loveseat, in which I spent hundreds of hours reading. “Modern Chair Sampler” includes chairs I grew up with, chairs from my own home, and others whose shapes I love. Some of the hours I spent in the Bauhaus loveseat were probably taken up by cross stitching, which I taught myself from the Girl Scout Handbook. Now I use cross stitch to play with traditional sampler forms, express myself politically, and bring concepts of modern abstract art into the world of needle and thread.