AnnRebele FabricArt
About the Artist
RESUME
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Fine Arts - The Ohio State University, Major: Design
SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS:
2012
Ann Rebele: Beyond The Surface - The Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio
2007
The Contemporary Art of the Art Quilter - The ConTEMPORARY Gallery, Worthington, Ohio
2006
New Dimensions in Art Quilts by Ann L. Rebele - The Dublin Arts Council, Dublin, Ohio
2005
Ann L. Rebele/Fiber Artist - The Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, Ohio
New Dimensions in Art Quilts by Ann L. Rebele - The Anna Bier Gallery, St. Clair Memorial Hall, Greenville, Ohio
JURIED ART EXHIBITIONS:
2011
Focus: Fiber 2011-2012- Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio
Quilt National 2011 - The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
Happiness: Quilted Expressions - The Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2010
Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry Juried Show - Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio
2009
The Quilted Surface V - The Columbus Cultural Art Center, Columbus, Ohio
2008
The Quilted Surface IV - The Ross Art Museum, Delaware, Ohio
2007
Fiber National 2007 - The Lancaster Museum of ART, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2006
The Best Of 2006 - Artspace/Lima, Lima, Ohio; The Ohio Designer Craftsmen Museum, Columbus, Ohio; Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio
Artist as Quiltmaker XII - Firelands Assoc. for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, Ohio
2005
The Best Of 2005 - The Ohio Designer Craftsmen Museum, Columbus, Ohio; The Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio; "The Dairy Barn", Athens, Ohio
2004
The View 2004 - The Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, Ohio
The Best Of 2004 - The Ohio Designer Craftsmen Museum, Columbus, Ohio; The Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, Ohio
2003
Ohio Art League Juried Exhibition - The Acock Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
The Best Of 2003 - The Ohio Designer Craftsmen Museum, Columbus, Ohio; The Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio; "The Dairy Barn", Athens, Ohio
2001
The Best Of 2001 - The Ohio Designer Craftsmen Museum, Columbus, Ohio; The Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio
2000
Tactile Architecture 2000 - The International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
1999
Regional '99 A Fine Art Competition - The Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
2012
Uncommon Threads - Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio
2011
Pushing the Surface 2011 - The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio
2010
FABRICations: Artistry in Fiber (Curated by Ann Rebele) - The High Road Gallery, Worthington, Ohio
2008
Reflections-Above and Below/Past and Present - Presented by Art Quilt Network, The Blair Audubon Center, Naples, FL; The Audubon Center, Greenwich, CT; The Randall Davey Audubon Center, Santa Fe, NM; The Tiburon Audubon Center, Richardson Bay, San Francisco, CA; The Aulwood Audubon Center, Dayton, OH
2006
The Best Of The Best Of - Curated by Betty Talbott, Director, The Ohio Craft Museum, The Wayne Center for the Art, Wooster, Ohio
2003
Coming Into View - Presented by The Ohio Designer Craftsmen Museum at the High Road Gallery, Worthington, Ohio
Pushing the Surface 2003 - The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio
2002
Art Quilts by Suzanne Evenson, Deborah Pentak and Ann Rebele - The Ohio State University Faculty Club, Columbus, Ohio
The Same Yet Different: Quiltmaking Meets the Modern Eye - The Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, Ohio
2001
The Same Yet Different: Quiltmaking Meets the Modern Eye - The High Road Gallery, Worthington, Ohio
Gridworks - The Ohio Designer Craftsmen Museum, Columbus, Ohio
2000
Four Generations of Art and Artists - The Monypenny Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
PUBLICATIONS:
2011
Quilt National 2011: The Best of Contemporary Quilts
2001
Quilter's Newsletter Magazine (October)
SPEAKING and WORKSHOP ENGAGEMENTS:
2012
"Conversations and Coffee" Ann Rebele:Beyond The Surface - Fabric Artist - The Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio
2010
“Putting Photos onto Fabric” - Workshop for Coshocton Canal Quilters, Coshocton, Ohio
2009
Slide Show of Work by Ann Rebele - Presented to The Art Quilt Alliance, Columbus, Ohio
2008
Slide Show of Work by Ann Rebele - Presented to the Delaware Artist’s Guild, Delaware, Ohio
2006
Slide Show of Work by Ann Rebele - Presented to the PfE Auxiliary, Columbus, Ohio
"Getting Your Photographs onto Fabric" - Workshop for Quintessential Quilters, Columbus, Ohio
2005
"Conversations and Coffee" Ann Rebele, Fiber Artist - The Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio
Slide Show of Work by Ann Rebele - Presented to The Quintessential Quilters, Columbus, Ohio
2003
Workshops on "Printing Photographs onto Fabric” - Art Quilt Network, Columbus, Ohio
GROUP SHOWS:
2010
Galleria Evangelia, Columbus, Ohio
2008
The High Road Gallery, Worthington, Ohio
The Griswold Center, Worthington, Ohio
2006
The High Road Gallery, Worthington, Ohio
2005
Fairfield County District Library, Lancaster, Ohio
The Griswold Center, Worthington, Ohio
2004
The Gallery at McGraw-Hill Companies, Columbus, Ohio
The High Road Gallery, Worthington, Ohio
Northwood ARTSpace, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
2003
The Columbus Cultural Art Center, Columbus, Ohio
The Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio
2002
The Columbus Mayor's Office, Columbus, Ohio
2001
Mt. Vernon Nazarene College Gallery, Mt. Vernon, Ohio
The Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, Ohio
The Griswold Center, Worthington, Ohio
The Columbus Cultural Art Center, Columbus, Ohio
The Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio
2000
The Schremshock Architects Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
The Ohio Art League, Columbus, Ohio
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Art Quilt Network - Past Treasurer
Art Quilt Alliiance - Past President, Past Treasurer
Quilt Surface Design Foundation Scholarship Board
Ann's work can be seen at many galleries, art centers, and private collections in Indiana, Ohio, Florida and Maine, as well as the permanent collection of St. Peter Church in Columbus, Ohio.
© 2008 - Ann L. Rebele
All images on this site are protected by copyright law and no image may be reproduced
in whole or in part without the express written permission of the artist.
Ann L. Rebele has a BFA degree from Ohio State University where she majored in Design. She has been making fabric art for over 25 years and enjoys creating original hand drawn, hand-painted, hand-dyed, and hand-printed fabrics, using her original photographs, and developing unique three-dimensional effects. Ann has had five solo art shows at art centers and galleries around Ohio including The Columbus Cultural Arts Center. Her work has been in numerous national and international juried and invitational exhibitions, including Quilt National 2011; Fiber National; many Best of at The Ohio Craft Museum; The Canton Museum of Art; The Butler Institute of American Art; The Mansfield Art Center; The Indianapolis Art Center; and The Ohio State Faculty Club. Ann’s solo show at the Dublin Arts Center was selected by the Columbus Dispatch as one of the “Best Visual-Arts Events” of 2006. She has curated exhibitions, and her art studio has been on the “Worthington Art Council’s - Artist’s Studio Tour”.
I have been working with fabrics and fibers almost all of my life, from sewing as a child, to weaving classes in college, to teaching Adult Education courses in Macramé in the ‘70s. However, it was my discovery of “Fabric Art” in the late ‘80s, where I could combine my lifetime love of sewing and fabrics with my education in art and design that led to my current passion.
I like to call what I do as “FABRICations” as I create almost all of my own fabrics. Using plain white untreated cotton or sheer silk organza fabrics, I draw on the fabric with fabric inks; paint on them with inks or fabric paints; hand-dye the fabrics; and/or print on the fabric. With printing, I use photographs or images that I scan into my computer, digitally manipulated, sectioned, and then print onto cotton fabrics that I then sewn together. Most of the images are my original photographs. I often include three-dimensional surface designs in my FABRICations to add texture and interest. Most recently I have been adding a 4th layer of sheer silk organza material, on which I have drawn and/or painted images. The sheer organza is then layered over a background printed image. I particularly like experimenting to create innovative designs and techniques. Once I come up with an idea for a new piece, I enjoy figuring out “how to” create that design in fabric almost as much as the actual construction itself.
I invite you to look beyond the surface. Look at the pieces from different perspectives, and to see these FABRICations, though using some traditional sewing techniques, as a unique form of art.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT