Violette Alby

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Bio: Violette Alby is an interdisciplinary visual artist, teacher, and recycling activist living in Northern New Mexico. She makes quilts, drawings, prints, and photographs, while mobilizing everyone to appreciate and utilize unwanted fabric--rescuing it from the dreaded landfill. Born in Paris, France in 1953—her quilting practice was inspired by the architecture of the city streets, she thought then that she needed to make a quilt that would fit that scale and harmonize with this original influential force.

Statement: I use recycled fabric to make life-sized dolls and quilts. The quilts incorporate arrows, figures, hand drawn-fabric, abstraction, a personalized use of color, pattern and texture. I am dedicated to improvisation and painting-like compositions in quilt form. I appreciate that quilts can keep you warm unlike a painting.