About Phyllis

Born in Philadelphia, Phyllis Harper Loney grew up nearby and attended art school in that city. The artist has lived in New England for many years and now lives in coastal Maine. During her years as a commercial artist, both employed and freelance work included: illustration, graphic design, and surface design for wall coverings and other products. Beginning in the mid-eighties as a full time studio artist, she has made hand-painting with dyes on natural fiber textiles the principal focus of her work. From her studio have come such creations as: lengths of art cloth, scarves, shawls, wall hangings, framed silk paintings, art quilts, and, in her recent work, painted silk collages. She has exhibited and sold her work widely in New England and beyond.

Artist’s Statement:

I paint on textiles, usually with fiber reactive dyes, directly applied with a brush to natural fiber fabrics, mostly silk. A part of the appeal for me is that the dyes form a chemical bond with the silk and the color becomes an integral part of the cloth. From my hand come patterns and forms in brilliant and rich colors, which are part of the textiles which become wall hangings, art quilts, collages, scarves or shawls.”

Education:

Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, BFA Textile Design
DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA
Print and Dye Works, late of Somerville, MA
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

Selected Exhibits and Shows:

  • River Arts, Damariscotta, ME, various shows 2013 to 2024.
  • Markings Gallery, Bath, ME, 2012 to 2024
  • Spring Exhibition 2015, Asymmetrick Arts, Rockland, ME
  • Underlying Threads, Common Street Arts, Waterville, ME, 2015
  • Pemaquid Art Gallery, Bristol, ME, 2014
  • The Stable Gallery, Damariscotta, ME, 2008 to 2013
  • The Inspired Hand V, Atrium ArtGallery, USM, Lewiston, ME, 2012
  • Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, 2011
  • Gallery One Eleven, Wiscasset, ME, 2011
  • Altering Matters, Atrium Art Gallery, USM, Lewiston, ME. 2010
  • Quilts and Textile Arts, Jonathan Frost Gallery, Rockland, ME, 2009
  • Surface Matters, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO, 2009
  • Intertwined: Maine Fiber Arts, Lord Hall Gallery, Orono, ME, 2009
  • Phyllis Harper Loney / dye paintings, Maine Fiberarts Gallery, Topsham, ME, 2008
  • MCA at Daniel Kany Gallery, Portland, ME, 2008
  • Art Quilts Lowell 2007, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA
  • Elemental: Contemporary Quilted Art, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA, 2007
  • Work of the Hand, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, 2006 and 2005
  • The Inspired Hand III, Atrium Art Gallery, USM, Lewiston, ME 2006
  • Art Quilts at the Whistler III, Lowell, MA, 2006
  • Studio Connections, Art Gallery at UNE, Portland, ME, 2006
  • Constants and Variables, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 2005
  • Portland Museum of Art, Another Layer, Selected Maine Art Quilts, 2004
  • Cutting Edge, Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunk, ME, 2004
  • Saltwater Artists Gallery, 2002 and 2003, Pemaquid, ME
  • Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Annual Juried Exhibit, 2004, 2003 and 2002
  • Crafts at the Eastland, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, 2002
  • Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library, Artist of the Month, 2002
  • The Waldo Theatre Art Gallery, Phyllis Harper Loney, Dye Paintings / Quilts and Wall hangings, Waldoboro, 2002
  • Crafts National 36, 33, and 29, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, PA
  • The Color Red, The Art Gallery at the Clown, Portland, ME, 2001
  • Chocolate Church Art Gallery, Bath, 3 artist exhibit
  • Fiberarts International ‘99, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA, 1999
  • Edge to Edge, Heritage Plantation Art Museum, Sandwich, MA, 1999
  • Acton Memorial Library, Acton, MA, one artist show, 1999
  • Cambridge Art Association: National Prize Show, Boston, MA, 1999,
  • Works in Fiber, Juror’s Choice Award, 1992
  • Four Visions/Four Paths, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, 1997
  • Concord Free Library, Concord, MA, one artist shows, 1997 and 1993
  • From Paper to Cloth, Levy Gallery for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1996
  • Threads, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY, 1995
  • Art in the Park, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1993
  • Crafts at the Castle, Boston, 1992
  • American Craft Council Shows, West Springfield, MA, 1992 and 1990
  • Juxtapositions, Schlesinger Library, Radcliff College, Cambridge, 1991

Publications:

Included in: Fiberarts Design Book 7, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 2004.
Boston Sunday Globe
Maine Women’s Journal
Lincoln County News, Damariscotta, ME
“THE BEAT” Courier Publications, Rockland, ME