Transformations: Layers of Time and Self

In Transformations: Layers of Time and Self, artist Marian Zielinski brings together abstract quilted works that explore memory, place, identity, and the accumulation of lived experience. Constructed through a process of digital layering and stitching, Zielinski’s compositions combine photography, drawing, painting, and printmaking with the traditions of fiber and quilting. Shapes drawn from nature, architecture, language, shadows, sound, and silence are reorganized into shifting networks of grids, patterns, and layered forms.

Throughout the exhibition, figure and ground continually move in and out of focus. Forms appear to emerge, dissolve, overlap, and transform, moving between the recognizable and the imagined. Color, texture, and repetition become tools for considering how experience is constructed over time. The resulting works function simultaneously as abstractions, maps, landscapes, and visual narratives—tracing connections between the personal and the collective.

Zielinski’s multidisciplinary approach reflects a life shaped by theatre, literature, philosophy, music, art, and the social and natural worlds around her. Her decades of work as a scenographer remain visible in her sensitivity to composition, spatial relationships, movement, and the way individual elements contribute to a larger visual experience.

Reception: October 2 at 6pm

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