TEXT/TEXTURE: PATRICIA GUTHRIE, JILL MCLENNAN, CHRISTINE MEURIS
April 25 – May 31, 2025
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, April 26, 3 – 5 pm
Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: May 2, 5 – 9 pm
Christine Meuris’ textiles are examples of both overshot weaving, in which a contrasting pattern thread is interwoven with the structural plain weave threads as well as inlay in which areas of pattern are placed only where the weaver wants them. Patricia Guthrie hand dyes and prints text onto her fabrics to create improvisational quilts without preconceived patterns or drawings. Jill McLennan’s narrative series “Migration” includes linoleum prints accompanied by letterpress printed text haikus, which enhance the telling of the stories depicted in the prints.
Available Work
Patricia Guthrie
After retiring from work as a professor and department chair of Human Development and Women’s Studies at Cal State East Bay in Hayward, Patricia Guthrie decided to actively engage in some form of visual arts. She began taking community-based art classes – drawing, photography, quilt making, and designing and printing fabric. Quilt making and all its aspects has since become her passion. Guthrie hopes her quilts encourage viewers to move beyond art that is merely pleasing to the eye to seek a deeper meaning.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally including Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York; International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Tuch + Technik Museum, Neumunster, Germany.
Christine Meuris
Christine Meuris lives and works in Berkeley, CA. She has shown her work in solo and group shows locally, notably at the Berkeley Art Center, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, and Mercury 20 Gallery; as well as in group shows around the U.S. She was a resident artist at Kala Art Institute in 2023 and was the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (SJMQT) in 2020. Her work has appeared in the Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, and the Textile Society of America News. Her work is included in the collections of the City of Berkeley, SJMQT, Kaiser Permanente, and the Four Seasons Residences SF, as well as in several private collections.
Jill McLennan
is a painter, printmaker and teaching artist who has been living in Oakland, CA for 23 years. She is an active member of her neighborhood Jingletown, creating and organizing public art and beautification projects, and has her studio at Jingletown Art Studios. In 2023, she completed a large-scale public art project with the city of Emeryville, a steel fence depicting local views and shorebirds. Currently, she is focused on printmaking and is exploring several techniques and subjects. This fall, she is an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. As both an artist and a teacher, she is deeply invested in learning new things, exploring her environment, inspiring youth, and spreading hope and joy into the world.