The quilts in this series are all made from clothes and bedding left curbside after an eviction – each quilt representing a single eviction. The green medallion at the center of this quilt is made from a woman’s dress and one strip of a man’s dress shirt. 68" x 86"
This is a night club just a couple of blocks from the eviction that resulted in the previous quilt and the inspiration for its design.
James Matthews' Eviction Quilt #3 (Green Medallion) earned an honorable mention in the 60th Annual Delta Exhibition.
The quilts in this series are all made from clothes and bedding left curbside after an eviction – each quilt representing a single eviction. 67"x92"
In this close-up of the previous quilt, you can see more about how it is constructed: All of the quilts are pieced out, sewn together into a top, and then hand-tied with cotton yarn.
The pink floral squares are a woman's satin night gown; the bright blue, a dress; the brown, a suede-like shirt. 63" x 76"
This quilt is made primarily from women's professional clothes and nurses scrubs. The centers of the squares are from a pair of men's swim trunks. The leopard print was a pillow case. 85" x 90"
Quilts as a material archive, a way to save the soon-to-be-discarded pieces of a transitory event such as an eviction. 90" x 93"
83" x 84"
76” x 88”
Made from yards of whole-cloth fabric, rather than clothes, recovered from an eviction of someone who obviously sewed. 120" x 88"
120" x 88"
Made from yards of whole-cloth fabric, rather than clothes, recovered from an eviction of someone who obviously sewed.