'The Sacred Square' fabric collage by Lloyd Burlingame
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Description
Seeing Eye graduate Lloyd Burlingame created this impressive wall hanging, called "The Sacred Square," as part of his fabric collage series titled "Hangings: Sacred and Secular."
Burlingame says this of his fabric collages: "There is a tremendous power in the emotional association the viewer-toucher brings to the various elements: velvet and canvas, tweed and satin, silk and burlap, denim and re-embroidered brocade -- opposites blended and living together to form a whole. The works have no conventional fronts or backs, tops or bottoms. Elements of one side are often to be found on the other side, overlapping and uniting."
The mixed media (multi-fabric and acrylic paint) collage is filled with vibrant, hot colors, creating an abstract effect. The back side of the collage is cooler, with an expanse of bluish purple surrounding a glowing square of orange and red. The entire piece is heavily quilted.
The artwork measures 91" wide by 94" tall" and has a 3/4" rod pocket for hanging. It is washable and comes with a canvas carrying bag.
Special Instructions
Lloyd Burlingame retired from a successful career as a set and costume designer for Broadway and other theatrical productions. In addition to his fabric collages, his artwork includes paintings in acrylic on paper. All his works are large format and highly abstract.
Burlingame had been legally blind for seven years when he began creating his art. Knowing that his vision would grow progressively limited, he decided to use his remaining vision to create these highly expressive pieces.
His collages, particularly the double-sided ones, explore the opposites in life, juxtaposing textures like shiny and dull, or rough and smooth, representing the opposites contained in each individual.
After a highly successful period of designing scenery, lighting and costumes on Broadway and for opera, Lloyd Burlingame turned his talents to studio art. Not only did he create works in acrylic on canvas and paper, but he explored the world of the large (and sometimes small), fabric collage. Many of these highly textured works were exhibited as a one-man show at Hartford’s prestigious Wadsworth Athanaeum. The show was entitled, “Once More with Feeling,” and the attendees were encouraged to touch the art.
His paintings , hangings and stage designs have had three one-man shows in Manhattan and his stage designs are in the collections of the University of Texas at Austin, as well as both The Theatre Collection and The Music Collection of the New York Public Library’s Library of the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center. His work has been the subject of two major videos by the noted documentarian, George Stoney, “How One Painter Sees,” and “Coping with Difficulties.”
Lloyd Burlingame is the Emeritus Chairman and Master Teacher in the Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has been awarded two Fulbright grants for study abroad; at the Academia Brera and Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy , and to the Oesterichestheatermuseum in Vienna, Austria. He is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts of Carnegie-Mellon University and is a proud alumnus of The Seeing Eye. He is currently writing his memoir, “Sets, Lights and Lunacy: A Stage Designer’s Adventures on Broadway and in Opera” will be published at the end of 2009. When not writing, he is travelling the world with his second Seeing Eye guide and companion, Kemp.