Imprinted on Cloth
Featuring Petra Fallaux, Pat Pauly, Karen Schulz, and Margaret Boys Wolf
May 31 to August 16, 2025
The exhibit Imprinted on Cloth showcases four fiber artists whose work crosses the boundaries between quilting and printmaking: Petra Fallaux, Pat Pauly, Karen Schulz, and Margaret Boys Wolf.
Using layering of fiber reactive dyes and surface design techniques such as silk screening, monoprinting, painting, stenciling, scraping and other mark-making methods they create masterful abstract compositions using color, shape, and line. The finished quilts are comprised of layers of the printed fabric, batting, backing and machine stitching putting them squarely at home in the quilt world. But it is the original hand printed cloth that takes center stage making them equally at home in the broader fiber art and fine arts fields.
An Opening Reception will be held 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 31, 2025. Light refreshments will be available. The event is free and open to the public.
About the artists
Petra Fallaux
Mono and screen printing are my go-to practices in making quilts. These processes force me to invite the unexpected. All my work is infused by a deep love of intense color, while abstract calligraphic marks never fail to please my aesthetic senses. Multiple layers of dye ensure hues that are vibrant and multifaceted. Drawing by hand on a plate or screen make delineated marks that are entirely my own. Withdrawn in my studio, I find a haven of small delights in private observations of making my marks.
Petra lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
Pat Pauly
With works that carry a graphic, color-saturated palette using her hand printed fabric, Pat Pauly’s fiber art has been exhibited in national and international exhibits. Using silkscreening, other mark-making techniques and fiber reactive dye, she creates bold abstract patterns and compositions and complex color combinations. With a degree in art, and graduate work in design and fine art, Pat chose fiber art as the perfect amalgam of construction, painting and printmaking. She has taught throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia, in design and surface design.
Pat lives in Rochester, NY.
Karen Schulz
Karen Schulz’s works have been described as sophisticated, elegant, and lively with attention to detail and craftsmanship. Her work references a careful consideration of line, shape, color, and texture, resulting in images that seem to issue an invitation to linger. Schulz’s work has been exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. A social worker for 30 years, Schulz retired from her psychotherapy practice in 2012 to devote her time to artmaking.
Karen lives in the Washington, D.C., area.
Margaret Boys Wolf
An early class in improvisational quilting forever changed Margaret Boys Wolf’s idea of quiltmaking and she continues to follow that vision finding inspiration in her travels and the world around her. Working in series, her process involves dyeing, silkscreening and discharging with a focus on color, overall composition, depth and texture. She is known for her signature gesture-like shapes, which are screen printed on the cloth. Margaret’s quilts have been included in exhibitions internationally and in the US.
Margaret lives in Issaquah, WA.