Allegory and genre, sometimes combined, remained his dominant modes; experiments with high-relief fabric collage continued.
His later career, following a move, in 1970, to Captiva Island, in Florida, was consumed by fetching but rather nerveless experimentation — with print mediums, cardboard reliefs, exotic fabrics, reflective surfaces, and incessant photography — and by collaborative projects, at times in politically minded causes, around the globe.
Among the artists leaning toward crafts are Carol Rosen, who is represented by relief constructions of fabric and wire evoking collapsed black umbrellas, and Patricia Lay, whose gridded compositions realized in gouache and pastel-colored slip imply landscapes.
Eunice Samuels's pieced fabric reliefs, inspired by tribal masks, go beyond specific cultural references to allow the artist's imagination free reign.
Cut corner reliefs so that the fabric will not bunch up when you turn it right side out.
Reliefs help keep the fabric along a curved seam from bunching and puckering when it's turned right side out.
A total of ₫52 million ($124,000) worth of funds and relief supplies, including 1600 m of fabric, and two tons of clothing, was sent to Quang Nam province.
Like a rare cool breeze on a hot day, the collection was a relief from the strong-shouldered, shiny-fabric, sequined world that has come to represent fashion for next autumn.
Sultrier greens and blacks and gold gowns and coats followed, arriving in different textures, some covered with tapestry fabric, others with flowers in relief.
Another work, a square-shape wall relief upholstered in a soft pale-blue fabric, has a purely social function: it's titled "A nice soft place for meeting people".
This trial supports Haskett's [ 6] finding that custom-made leather splints are superior to a commercially available fabric splint for short-term relief of wrist pain and dysfunction.
