Deidre Scherer
Layered Couple, 2024
Thread on layered found cotton fabrics, linen 12” height x 11” width x 0.25” depth, frame: 20.5” height x 17.5” width x 1.25” depth
This piece portrays a couple in the upheaval of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, which became apparent when I sliced through, cutting away at the fabric, destroying the image, and then reassembling it.
Deidre Scherer
Balance Again, 2020
Thread on layered found cotton fabrics, unraveled base fabric 10” height x 9” width x 0.25” depth, frame19” height x 17” width x 1.25” depth
The repetitive act of unraveling and then attaching each weft and warp of thread to string her like a drum, reflected my grief for the death of a grandchild.
Deidre Scherer
Unfolding Weave, 2017
Ink on matte paper, chine colle 21” height x 16” width x 0.25” depth, frame: 28” height x 23” depth x 1.5” depth
I created a last portrait in thread-on-fabric. After I made two ink-on-paper prints, one became warp and one became weft which I reintegrated as a woven sheet: losing her and finding her again.
Deidre Scherer
Woven Inside Hands, 2023
Ink on matte paper, gold acrylic and chine colle 9” height x 8” width x 0.25” depth, frame: 17” height x 15” width x 1.25” depth
This process of destroying and then rebuilding expands my reflections on the opposites of dividing and uniting; knowing and unknowing; stasis and movement.
Deidre Scherer
Of Few Words, 2024
Ink on matte paper, gold acrylic and chine colle 8” height x 6” width x 0.25” depth, frame: 17” height x 15” width x 1.25” depth
I cut two prints-on-paper of my fabric original into strips to create warp and weft, and then reintegrated them into a woven sheet. The weave jumps giving a sense of movement.
Deidre Scherer
Connection, 2021
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 8 x 9.5 inches
By commission.
Deidre Scherer
Brilliance, 2023
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 11 x 10 inches
Deidre Scherer
Sisters, Sitting, 2004
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 29 x 29 inches
Now in the collection at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.
Deidre Scherer
Dad’s Last Day, 2021
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 16 x 18 inches
I worked from a drawing that I made at his bedside.
Deidre Scherer
Mother Holding Child, 2023
Thread on layered fabric, free-cut and free-stitched by machine 54 x 24 inches
Mindful of families, women and children surviving violence.
