Donna Flenniken has been working with fabric all her life. She was strongly influenced by her grandmother, a prolific quilter. Flenniken's work consists of precisely planned and executed machine quilted tapestries. In addition to creating studies of light, pattern, line, color and texture. She deals with themes of life and death, human relationships, and the mystical thread of myth that runs continuously through human experience. A number of her tapestires portray well-known Mexican …
Donna Flenniken has been working with fabric all her life. She was strongly influenced by her grandmother, a prolific quilter. Flenniken's work consists of precisely planned and executed machine quilted tapestries. In addition to creating studies of light, pattern, line, color and texture. She deals with themes of life and death, human relationships, and the mystical thread of myth that runs continuously through human experience. A number of her tapestires portray well-known Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
A sense of order is at the heart of Flenniken's work, as in all quilt making, both in terms of process and symbolism. The metaphors of the quilt-making something of nothing and ordering random fabric pieces into a dynamic whole-resonate powerfully in her work.
