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Just in time for Mother's Day, the latest show at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles seems to prove the truth of the saying "like mother, like daughter." A Generation Apart: Mothers & Daughters & Art, which opened last month, features the works of three pairs of artists who are mother and daughter. But in a way, the exhibit also disproves the adage, too, with artworks that illustrate the distinct styles and viewpoints of two different generations.
Although it's true of each pairing in the exhibit that both mother and daughter work in more or less the same artistic discipline, each artist has an unmistakably individual style.
Quiltmaker Evelyn Wasson creates intricate quilts that are based on traditional quilt patterns. Many of her works are created with fabric scraps, but a few of the bright, warm colors she chooses are similar to those featured in many quilts created by her daughter, Shirley Tyler, whose designs tend to be abstract and contemporary.
Lucia Grigore weaves tapestries that depict large, highly detailed florals, and her daughter, Celina Grigore, also creates tapestries, but Grigore's feature stylized, boldly patterned scenes inspired by anything from mythology to the performing arts.
Rusty Cantor is a painter and sculptor whose range of works includes many different media, including textiles. Many of her abstract paintings on unstretched canvas depict extraterrestrial landscapes or skyscapes. Likewise, the art of her daughter, sculptor Lesley Cantor-Fallihee, also sometimes suggests an otherworldly origin, although the media she works in--glass beads and metal wire--couldn't be more different from her mother's. (See related story on the last page of this section.)
"A Generation Apart: Mothers & Daughters & Art" will be on display through June 6 at San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, 110 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose. Admission is $4$5. For more information, call 408.971.0323 or visit www.sjquiltmuseum.org.
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