Article: DONNA RHAE MARDER: SIZE MATTERS

Donna Rhae Marder makes thoroughly impractical quilts and dresses out of materials such as used coffee filters, matches, and eggshells. They're not to be worn; they're art. Her witty, poignant show at the Fuller Craft Museum is full of old stuff most people throw out, which Marder stitches up with gaudy thread to make work that's strangely sad, for all its bright colors. The dresses are concerned with memory and absence; the old materials sewn up into party garb capture the essence of someone or something ...

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