First Friday: Lily Mueller, 'Moving Parts'

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: Lily interprets her experience of music and architectural spaces using color, pattern and composition in her hand dyed quilts. Growing up in a color-rich, musical, and creative home, she forged long-standing connections between music, design, space and color. Her parents painted and remodeled her childhood home with lively colors, allowing her to view spaces as fluid and ever-changing. Her quilts present dream-like patterns and spaces inspired by music, vibrant color combinations and psychedelia. She pushes these concepts by playing with texture and using reflective fabrics such as silk and velvet to create different surfaces on her two dimensional quilts. Through relationships between pattern and space, she creates constant motion in her compositions.  When making a quilt, Lily is constantly listening to music and describing her emotional (or non-verbal) response in her quilts. She believes this to be a vital reason the composition and use of color ebbs and flows, much like a piece of music.