Age, wisdom, the accumulation of experience and its imprint on the human body have attracted fiber artists Deidre Scherer and Jackie Abrams, both pioneers in their media for many years. Collaborating for an exhibition called “Connections,” at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont, on view from March 9 to June 16, 2019, they have created strongly textured vessels that beautifully and uniquely reflect the human image. The vessels on display, resulting from their collaboration, derive from reconfigured and printed images of Scherer’s original thread-on-fabric works which Abrams deconstructs and weaves into her vessel-shaped works. Scherer, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, is widely exhibited, awarded and commissioned internationally. She pioneered a unique figurative approach to the medium of thread on fabric in which she applies thread to layered fabrics … [Read more...] about MUTUAL RESPECT SOCIETY: SCHERER AND ABRAMS CREATE A NEW HUMAN TEXTURE