Artist- Pam RuBert

Pam RuBert
pam@rubert.com
1841 E. Bergman St., Springfield, MO 65802
417-862-3760
http://www.pamrubert.com

Click here to read Pam's entry in the curator's blog

Alien Invasion
53" x 72"
2006
$7632

Image -
300 dpi, 2400 x 3159 pixels, 8" x 10.5"

Biography

Pam RuBert was born in St. Louis and currently lives in Springfield, Missouri. She shares a studio in an old peanut butter factory with her husband Russ RuBert, a sculptor who creates public art and gallery installations. Pam started making art quilts in 2004. Since then her work has been featured in Quilt National and a PBS documentary and has won awards in the Husqvarna Viking Exhibition and International Quilt Festival. In 2009 her quilts will be featured in books that will be published by Voyageur Press and North Light Books.

Artist Statement

As long as I can remember, I have drawn and doodled. My drawings have appeared in many forms, but love of the handcrafted object inspired me to combine my drawings with quilts. I like to orchestrate elements of color, pattern, line, and texture into a story, often working large so I have room to add stories within the story. Sometimes when I'm alone in my studio, I find myself laughing out loud. I’ve always believed humor and creativity are linked; maybe both are related to the ability to step outside of ourselves and see things from unexpected viewpoints.

Many of my quilts feature a woman called PaMdora who views the world around her with a mixture of astonishment and disbelief. My everyday life is the seed for these quilts, and although these stories are embellished to fantastic ends, elements are real to me -- and I find, to many people. I enjoy sharing these connections. It’s a way to bring us a little closer together, and if I also make you smile or laugh, that’s even better.

Resume

Solo Shows
Wish You Were Hair, Creamery Arts Center, Springfield, MO, September 2008
Contemporary Art Quilts by Pam RuBert, Driskill Gallery at the Jester Performing Arts Center, Boliver, MO January 2008
The Perils of PaMdora, Pool Art Center, Drury University, Springfield, MO, December 2006 - January 2007

Curated Group Shows
Art with a Q, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, November 2008-March 2009
New Focus, Coos Museum, Coos Bay, OR, December 2008-February 2009
Figuratively Speaking, Visions Gallery, San Diego, CA, August-October 2008
Distinctive Directions, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE, April 2008
Reiminiscence, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, May-September 2007

Juried Group Shows
A Tear in the Fabric: Conceptually Driven Quilts, California Polytechnic State U. Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2008
SAQA The Creative Force, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, and traveling to UK and Africa
Quilt National, Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH, May-September 2007
FiberArts International, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, April - August 2007
Quilt Visions, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, November 2006
World of Beauty, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, November, 2006
The Best of SAQA, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, November 2006
Art Quilts at the Sedwick, Philadelphia, PA, April 2006
Quilt National 2005, Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, 2005 – traveling until 2008
Husqvarna Viking Exhibition, Houston, 2005, Chicago, 2006 – traveling to France, Great Britian, Denmark, Austria, and Australia until 2007
Fiber Focus, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2005
Mixed Media Quilts, Guilford Handicraft Center, Guilford, CT, 2005
Elements, Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary, NC, 2004
Winter Exhibition, Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts, Springfield, MO, 2004

Awards
International Quilt Festival, Second place - whimsical quilts, 2007
Husqvarna Viking Exhibition, Second place, 2005
Winter Exhibition at Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts, Juror’s Choice Award, 2004

Books
Quilting Arts, Voyageur Press, 2009
Creative Time and Space, North Light Books, 2009
Quilt National 2007 and 2005, Lark Books
Quilt Visions, Visions Press, 2006
Masterpieces: Art Takes Shape, Husqvarna Press, 2005

Television-DVD
Quilting Arts TV, aired nationwide 2008, available on DVD
The Art of Quilting, PBS documentary, aired nationwide 2007, available on DVD

Magazines
Handwerken zonder Grenzen, (Dutch magazine), October 2008
Welcome to the Art Factory, Studio edition of Cloth, Paper, Scissors, April 2008
Artist Profile, Quilting Arts Magazine, January 2008
Top Stitch, Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion, December, 2007
Best Stash, Fiberarts magazine, Summer, 2007
Interview with Pam RuBert, IQA Journal, Summer 2007
Love & Art, Signature Magazine, March 2007
Art Matters: Philadelphia Region’s Magazine of the Arts, April 2006
Strong work seen in Philly, Fiberarts Magazine, web gallery, 2006
Fiber Artistry, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 2005