Jennifer Lord

Installation note: this work is hung with T-pins directly to the wall. Pins and installation instructions will be provided.

Nine Patch Tulle Quilt plays with the quilt, subverting its function but relying on its logic. It is a grid, made from grids, material in its texture, color and visible processes. The grid here is functional, it is the method of quilting. To quilt is to join three layers of cloth together through stitching. Taking the Nine Patch, a traditional quilt piecing method, as a point of departure, and enlarging it into the whole piece. Layers of black tulle are stitched together into approximately 24 x 24 inch pieces, quilted in 3 x 3 inch grids. These nine quilted pieces were then hand-stitched together to complete the quilt. 

Grid 1 (Yellow Field/Specific Object), 2024

MX dye, collage, cotton thread, and colored pencil on canvas with paper collage addition

25.5 x 36 x 1.5”

Grid 2 (Railroad, or living in an apartment next to the L), 2024

MX dye, collage, and cotton thread on canvas

24 x 24 x 1.5”

Grid 3 (all black sunset), 2025

MX dye, collage, and cotton thread on canvas

24 x 24 x 1.5”

Grid 4 (Watching the Storm Approach (Through the Window)), 2025

MX dye, indigo, collage, and cotton thread on canvas

24 x 24 x 1.5”