About the Artist:
Sue Reno is an award winning fiber artist who lives and works in Lancaster County, PA. Her rich and intricate art quilts featuring landscape images and botanical subjects are inspired by her surroundings, incorporating plants from her extensive organic garden and from the fringes of cultivation. She also works with architectural subjects, and has just completed a series of ten quilts documenting the transformation of the beaux-arts style Watt & Shand department store into a hotel and convention center.
She employs surface design techniques including cyanotypes, heliographic prints, and image transfers as the basis for works that also incorporate unusual and hand painted fabrics, hand and machine stitching, and beadwork.
Her work was featured in an episode of “Simply Quilts” on HGTV, on the cover of The Professional Quilter magazine, in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, and Machine Quilting Unlimited.
Sue has exhibited in solo shows as well as participating in numerous art and fine craft exhibits at venues including The Pennsylvania State Museum, the Robeson gallery at Penn State, the Wolf Gallery at York College and the Bellefonte Museum, all in PA; the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, NJ, the Greater Denton Art Council, TX, and the Museum of Fine Art in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; plus regularly contributing to quilt festivals including those in Lancaster PA, Houston TX, Denver CO, Chicago IL, Long Beach CA, Hampton VA and Santa Clara CA.
Solo Shows:
• "Flora and Fauna", upcoming in October 2010, PA Arts Experience Gallery, Lancaster, PA.
• “Fantastic Foliage”, upcoming in September, 2010, Jonal Gallery, Columbia, PA.
• “Transformation: The Watt & Shand Series”, 2010 , The Arts Hotel Gallery, Lancaster, PA.
• “Nature Quilts”, solo show of botanical work, 2009, Isadore Gallery, Lancaster, PA
• “River Visions”, 2007, special 14 quilt exhibit, The Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Harrisburg, PA.
• Images 2010, June 9 - July 11, 2010, Robeson Gallery, Pennsylvania State University at University Park, PA. Awarded Best in Show and Honorable Mention. Juror: Dan Mills.
• "More Than Fiber", 2010 Cohen Gallery at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, , Reading, PA. Juror: Warren Selig.
• A World of Stitches: appliqué art from Benin, Panama and Pennsylvania, 2009, Bellefonte Museum for Centre County, Bellefonte, PA. Invitational: curated by Patricia House.
• Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2009, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA. Juror: Theodore Hallman, Jr.
• Images 2009, Robeson Gallery, Pennsylvania State University at University Park, PA. Juror: Judith Hansen O’Toole.
• PA Arts Experience Members Exhibit, 2009, Susquehanna House Gallery, Wrightsville, PA.
• PA Arts Experience Members Exhibit, 2009, Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery, Lancaster, PA.
• Materials: Hard & Soft, 2009, Denton, TX. Juror; Marilyn da Silva.
• PA Arts Experience Member Exhibit, 2009, Wolf Gallery, York College, York, PA
• Images 2008, Robeson Gallery, Pennsylvania State University at University Park, PA, Viewer’s Choice Award. Juror: Dinah Ryan.
• Fabulous Fiber, 2008, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ. Jurors: Joanie San Chirico and Geraldine Velasquez.
• Images 2007, Robeson Gallery, Pennsylvania State University at University Park, PA. Juror: Heather Pesanti.
• Crafts National 40, 2006, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, Pa, Award of Merit. Juror: Mark Richard Leach.
• Connecting Cultures and Colors: First Kyrgyz-American Quilt Exhibit, 2006, Museum of Fine Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Invitational, curated by Karen Musgrave.
Selected Quilt Exhibits:
• "River Quilts", December 2010 - March 2011, The National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY. Invitational: curated by Judy Schwender.
• AQS Quilt Show, 2010, Lancaster County Convention Center, Lancaster, PA
• Art Quilts XIII: Lucky Break, 2008, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
• “Contemporary Colorations”, NQA Quilt Show, Columbus, OH, 2008. Invitational: curated by Lynn G. Kough.
• Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Honorable Mentions 2004, 2005, 2nd Place 2006, special 14 quilt solo exhibit “River Visions” 2007, Best Use of Color award 2008, Judge's Choice 2009.
• Celebrate Spring, International Quilt Festival, Chicago, IL, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009; traveling to IQF/Long Beach and IQF/Houston.
• Quilts: A World of Beauty, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, 2005, 3rd place 2007; traveling to IQF/Long Beach 2008.
• Small Wonders VIII, International Quilt Festival, Chicago & IQF Houston, 2006.
• Denver National Quilt Festival, Denver, CO, 2005, 2006 2007, 2008, 2009
• Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara CA, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008.
• Quilter's Heritage Celebration, Lancaster, PA, 2005, Honorable Mention 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
• Quilt Odyssey, Hershey, PA, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
• Sacred Threads, Reynoldsburg, OH, 2005, 2007, 2009.
• Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, 2005, 2006.
• Fabric of Legacies National Quilt Exhibit, Ft. Collins, CO, 2005, 4th Place 2006.
Media:
• 1000 Artisan Textiles, Quarry Books, featured artist, 2010.
• "Stitch in Time", feature article, Lancaster Sunday News, 3/28/10
• "Magic in Fabric", feature article, Lancaster Newspapers, 3/18/10
• SAQA Portfolio 16, 2010.
• Machine Quilting Unlimited, feature article, July 2009 Issue.
• Featured Artist, “Simply Quilts” episode 1130, HGTV
• Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, feature article, September 2006, issue #385
• The Professional Quilter magazine, cover quilt, Issue 97, Fall 2006.
• Interview, Alliance for the American Quilt, Q.S.O.S.
• A Beginner's Guide to Art Quilts, Leisure Art Publications, featured artist, 2006.
• Fiberarts Magazine, fiber postcard image, April/May 2006.
• Feature article, Lancaster (PA) New Era, October 2005