Joan’s quilts are paintings experienced through fabric. Her numerous collections of found images, books about illuminated manuscripts, old and contemporary examples of text in many languages, calligraphy, and first drafts of her own poems combined with everyday experiences form the subject matter of her work. Early manuscripts written on parchment and vellum are of special interest to Joan. The process of scraping and reusing the material can be seen in her work. “Text sometimes appeared as palimpsests, ghostly echoes of the old mixing with the new, creating layers and text with surprising juxtapositions.”

Selected Permanent Collections:

National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery,
Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Books by Joan Schulze:
The Art of Joan Schulze, Custom and Limited Editions,
San Francisco, California, 1999

please contact us for other available works
thirteenmoonsgallery@earthlink.net

Prologue
17"x29"
$1400

Sightings
18"x28"
$1400