September 13-16, 2018, From the Artist's Collection; Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork, St Croix aux Mines, France, Septmeber 2018

photo credit: Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork

I am excited to have been invited to have a solo show at the 24th Annual Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France. I will be exhibiting nine quilts and presenting my video A Piece of Me on Saturday, September 15 at 2pm. It is a great honor and I am looking forward to what will be my first solo show in Europe. Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork takes place throughout five quaint villages in eastern France very near the German border.

As an adopted child, my inner life was full of fantasy and musing about my origins. I loved the movie Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, especially the scene where Charlie blasts through a glass skylight in flight over terracotta rooftops of a German village. The scene stirred my imagination, interest in my own German heritage, and my desire to someday see those very red rooftops myself. In the subsequent 40 years I never made it to Europe, until now. I can't help but believe that my solo exhibit at Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork is my own fantastic flight, a homecoming, and a childhood dream realized.

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Erick Wolfmeyer roots his work in the conventions of traditional quilt-making while he expands the visual and conceptual boundaries of the medium with each new piece. The work celebrates the excavation of the soul through the work of his hands . EXHIBITIONS 2018 From the Artist's Collection (solo), Le Carrefour Européen du Patchwork in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France 2017 Rerum Novarum (solo), Pearson Lakes Art Center in Lake Okoboji, Iowa Quilted Expressions , Blanden Art Museum in Ft Dodge, Iowa Art Quilts of the Midwest Iowa Quilt Museum in Winterset, Iowa 2016 National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky International Quilt Study Center in Lincoln, Nebraska 2015 Sum of Many Parts: Quiltmakers in Contemporary America Crealde’ School of Art in Winter Park, Florida The Foundry Art Centre in St Charles, Missouri ...

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