Denise Burge · John Lanzador · Sherri Lynn Wood

The Gallery at The Summit Hotel

November 6, 2019 – March 28, 2020

Installation view
Clockwise

Sherri Lynn Wood
Trim, 2000
hand stitched- found blanket, crocheted poncho, decorative trims, yarn, sheet
73 x 77 inches

Godseye, 1996
machine and hand pieced, hand embroidered, hand quilted- vintage 70’s prints, polyester, velvet, cotton, found afghan, mirrors, pins, glass beads, batting
90 x 90 inches

Installation view
Clockwise

Sherri Lynn Wood
Shag, 1999
hand stitched- found crocheted afghan, bath rug, trim, blanket, garter clasps
64 x 40 inches

Trim, 2000
hand stitched- found blanket, crocheted poncho, decorative trims, yarn, sheet
73 x 77 inches

Ova, 1999
machine pieced, hand embroidered and pieced- found crocheted afghan, vinyl table cloth, toilet seat cozy, blanket, yarn  
58 x 62 inches

Installation view
Clockwise

Sherri Lynn Wood
Ova, 1999
machine pieced, hand embroidered and pieced- found crocheted afghan, vinyl table cloth, toilet seat cozy, blanket, yarn  
58 x 62 inches

Godseye, 1996
machine and hand pieced, hand embroidered, hand quilted- vintage 70’s prints, polyester, velvet, cotton, found afghan, mirrors, pins, glass beads, batting
90 x 90 inches

Sherri Lynn Wood
Shag, 1999
hand stitched- found crocheted afghan, bath rug, trim, blanket, garter clasps
64 x 40 inches

Sherri Lynn Wood
Trim, 2000
hand stitched- found blanket, crocheted poncho, decorative trims, yarn, sheet
73 x 77 inches

Sherri Lynn Wood
Ova, 1999
machine pieced, hand embroidered and pieced- found crocheted afghan, vinyl table cloth, toilet seat cozy, blanket, yarn  
58 x 62 inches

Installation view

Sherri Lynn Wood
Godseye, 1996
machine and hand pieced, hand embroidered, hand quilted- vintage 70’s prints, polyester, velvet, cotton, found afghan, mirrors, pins, glass beads, batting
90 x 90 inches

Installation view

Sherri Lynn Wood
Godseye, 1996
machine and hand pieced, hand embroidered, hand quilted- vintage 70’s prints, polyester, velvet, cotton, found afghan, mirrors, pins, glass beads, batting
90 x 90 inches

Installation view

Sherri Lynn Wood and Denise Burge

Installation view

Denise Burge
Chimney Rock in Bloom, 2002
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery
80 x 65 inches

Installation view

Denise Burge
Chimney Rock in Bloom, 2002
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery
80 x 65 inches

Machination, 2002
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery
68 x 98 inches

Tug Fork Breakdown, 2002
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery, yarn 
60 x 64 inches

Installation view

Denise Burge
Louise’sTrees, 1999
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery 
65 x 68 inches

Maquette, 2003
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery 
72 x 95 inches

Denise Burge
Chimney Rock in Bloom, 2002
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery
80 x 65 inches

 

Denise Burge
Machination, 2002
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery
68 x 98 inches

Denise Burge
Tug Fork Breakdown, 2002
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery, yarn 
60 x 64 inches

Denise Burge
Louise’sTrees, 1999
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery

Denise Burge
Maquette, 2003
machine and hand stitched- fabric, embroidery 
72 x 95 inches

Installation view

John Lanzador
Tattoo Flash: Join or Die, 20197
acrylic on carved pine
23 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches

Tattoo Flash Series: Strength, 2017
acrylic on carved pine
23 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches

Tattoo Flash: Heartbreak, 2017
acrylic on carved pine
23 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches

Tattoo Flash: Rebirth, 2017
acrylic on carved pine
23 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches

Installation view

John Lanzador
Tattoo Flash and Bowling Ladies series

Installation view

John Lanzador
Lady Bowlers, 1996-present
acrylic on carved pine
overall installation variable; 
8 x 5 1/2 inches, each
each a unique piece within an 
ongoing edition of 300
​each signed, numbered and dated by the artist on back side

Installation view

John Lanzador
Tattoo Flash and Bowling Ladies series

Installation view

John Lanzador
Lady Bowlers, 1996-present
acrylic on carved pine
overall installation variable; 
8 x 5 1/2 inches, each
each a unique piece within an 
ongoing edition of 300
​each signed, numbered and dated by the artist on back side

detail

John Lanzador
Lady Bowlers, 1996-present
acrylic on carved pine
overall installation variable; 
8 x 5 1/2 inches, each
each a unique piece within an 
ongoing edition of 300
​each signed, numbered and dated by the artist on back side

John Lanzador
Lady Bowler, 1996-present
acrylic on carved pine
overall installation variable; 
8 x 5 1/2 inches, each
each a unique piece within an 
ongoing edition of 300
​each signed, numbered and dated by the artist on back side

John Lanzador
Tattoo Flash: Heartbreak, 2017
acrylic on carved pine
23 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches

John Lanzador
Tattoo Flash: Join or Die, 20197
acrylic on carved pine
23 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches

John Lanzador
Tattoo Flash: Rebirth, 2017
acrylic on carved pine
23 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches

John Lanzador
Tattoo Flash Series: Strength, 2017
acrylic on carved pine
23 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches

 

Press Release

Denise Burge · John Lanzador · Sherri Lynn Wood
The Gallery at the Summit, A Dolce Hotel
5345 Medpace Way
Cincinnati, OH 45227
November 6, 2019 to March 28, 2020
Holiday Reception
Wednesday December 4 from 5 to 8 PM

Please join The Gallery at the Summit, A Dolce Hotel and Alternate Projects in celebrating the season and their current exhibition, Denise Burge · John Lanzador · Sherri Lynn Wood, at a reception on Wednesday December 4 from 5 to 8 PM. This reception is free and open to the public.  

This exhibition presents the work of Cincinnati-based artists Denise Burge, John Lanzador and Sherri Lynn Wood. Both Burge and Wood are quilt artists and Lanzador creates acrylic on pine relief sculptures.

Using a variety of materials, Denise Burge creates highly energetic imagistic quilts that are an explosion of color and pattern. These beautiful almost cartoon-looking quilts may seem a bit light hearted. Not at all casual, however, Burge’s love and concern for nature resonates from the imagery itself to such sewn on texts as, Chimney Rock in Bloom and Tug Fork Breakdown. Burge's work has been widely commissioned and collected, and included in two Quilt National exhibitions. She is the recipient of multiple awards and grants, including competitive residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, and, most recently, the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. 

Titling her series, Home Bodies, Sherri Lynn Wood uses common everyday materials like blanket squares, vintage tablecloths and clothing trim for what at first glance look like quilts with beautiful abstract designs. Closer inspection reveals these shapes and patterns actually symbolize aspects of the female human body.  Wood is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships and artist residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center and the Headlands Center for the Arts.

John Lanzador’s Lady Bowler series is an ongoing series inspired by an actual miniature sculpture of a lady bowler. The image of this bowler appears in every relief, sometimes showing her whole figure, other times not. The pieces in this series are each 5 1/2 x 8 inches. A total of 288 Lady Bowlers have been made to date and 240 are on display in this exhibition. A passionate educator , Lanzador has collaborated with such local arts organizations as ArtWorks of Cincinnati, Maddux Elementary, BLDG and Visionaries + Voices on community projects and the training of youth apprentices.

Denise Burge · John Lanzador · Sherri Lynn Wood runs through March 28, 2020. For more information on this exhibition contact Alternate Projects, info@alternateprojects.net or 859- 653- 8684.