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Clay Lohmann — quilts

Raised on cattle ranches in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, Clay Lohmann attended Indian Camp school on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma.  He received a BFA in printmaking from Wichita State University.  Clay Lohmann is interested in the materials and techniques of the visual arts.  He has lived, worked, and exhibited in the US and abroad.  In 2010, Lohmann's quilts were shown at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon and the premier exhibition of the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York.

The Arts Center Exhibit(s):

• 'Calculated Result - Mathematical Art,' September 2011
• '9th Around Oregon Annual Exhibition,' October, 2011

Artist's Statement
for 'Calculated Result - Mathematical Art:'

Filipbo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), most famous as the architect erecting the dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Flore Italy, was also a painter and a mathematician.  In approximately 1425, he codified the rules of single point linear perspective and presented his proof in the form of a painting showing an architectural setting with a black and white checkerboard floor receding into space.  This change Western art practices forever. Here, these same principles have been used to produce a quilt pattern, perhaps for the first time?

Artist's Statement for '9th Around Oregon Annual Exhibition:'

I am not concerned about the materials per se, I am concerned about the preconception of what makes a quilt. A quilt is a construction concept, one of our oldest.  A quilt is three-layers sewn together.  It started as body armour. Is still used, and may very well be on your feet.  Most modern athletic shoes are made this way. Think about your home: an interior wall, an exterior wall and most often fiberglass insulation, as the batting between. The wall studs give structure and act as the quilting pattern. 

'Greenie Chiweenie,' 2011
80" x 80" Block print and rubber stamp, polymer ink on Tyvek (Dupont, air-infiltration material), Thinsulate batting, R-2.2, sewn with cotton-poly thread

Visit Clay Lohmann's website.