Marcie Farwell sometimes goes by the name of her great aunt Zora Jane, whom she never actually met but liked the moment she found out Zora tripped over things a lot. Miss Farwell moved from California to attend New York University in order to study Architectural History but instead fell in love with photography and making things by hand. She lives in Brooklyn and while you will still catch her looking up to read dates on cornices she is usually otherwise occupied with a thrift store find, a sewing machine, fabric, knitting needles, a camera or any combination thereof. Marcie worked with the dress designer Mary Adams in New York where she learned the fine art of welding a needle and thread.
In 2006, her dress The Great War appeared as part of a group show put together by Katrina Rodabaugh at Mills College and in 2007, her piece Wede was part of a group textile show “Tints” at Rock Paper Scissors Gallery in Oakland. She collaborated with Lindsay Gilmour for a art/dance piece “The East Wind in a Petticoat,” shown at Ithaca College in 2008. Marcie Farwell co-founded the One Stone Collective in January of 2009 while living at the Grail in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. For the Collective’s first show COMPASS, Marcie created two site specific pieces “And When He Fell in Love with the Sea She Sewed for Him Sails of Indigo” and “It Lead Her Straight to the Heart of Boo’s Tree.”
“The Quilting Bee”
Photo Quilt Series - Paper based photographic portraits sewn together and embroidered in the American “Crazy Quilt” tradition.
2000 to Present
“The Quilting Bee” Detail
Photo Quilt Series - Paper based photographic portraits sewn together and embroidered in the American “Crazy Quilt” tradition.
2000 to Present
“The Great War” Art Dress
1920’s inspired dress as part of a group project for Katrina Rodabaugh Master’s Thesis for Mills College. Integrating the poetry of Gertrude Stein letterpressed onto fabric then pieced along with recycled and hand-knit materials and embroidered.
February 2007
“Red and Black I"
Photo Quilt and Art Quilt.
4x4” pieces inspired by World War I era mourning etiquette
Shown at Rock, Paper, Scissors Gallery for the fourth anniversary of the Iraq Invasion.
March 2007
“Red and Black II"
Photo Quilt and Art Quilt.
4x4” pieces inspired by World War I era mourning etiquette
Shown at Rock, Paper, Scissors Gallery for the fourth anniversary of the Iraq Invasion.
March 2007
“Wede” Large Scale Art Dress/Tent.
Inspired by the stories of Juliet, Ophelia and Briar Rose and childhood forts. Black on Black embroidery, quilting, appliqué, lace knitting and crochet and letterpress printed fabric pieced together in the form of a Victorian mourning dress.
As part of a show, “Tints” at Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective Gallery, Oakland CA. October 2007
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“Wede” Large Scale Art Dress/Tent.
Inspired by the stories of Juliet, Ophelia and Briar Rose and childhood forts. Black on Black embroidery, quilting, appliqué, lace knitting and crochet and letterpress printed fabric pieced together in the form of a Victorian mourning dress.
As part of a show, “Tints” at Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective Gallery, Oakland CA. October 2007
“The East Wind in a Petticoat”
Art Dress and Dance Performance Collaboration.
Two new art dresses and the reuse of “Wede”(seen above) in a dance piece choreographed and performed by Lindsay Gilmour. “The East Wind” was inspired by the idea that the original meaning of the word “spinster” was The Fates. The two all white dresses act as counterpoint to “Wede.”
The piece was part of the show “No Translation Needed” at Ithaca College.
March 2008
“The East Wind in a Petticoat”
Art Dress and Dance Performance Collaboration.
Two new art dresses and the reuse of “Wede”(seen above) in a dance piece choreographed and performed by Lindsay Gilmour. “The East Wind” was inspired by the idea that the original meaning of the word “spinster” was The Fates. The two all white dresses act as counterpoint to “Wede.”
The piece was part of the show “No Translation Needed” at Ithaca College.
March 2008
“The East Wind in a Petticoat”
Art Dress and Dance Performance Collaboration.
Two new art dresses and the reuse of “Wede”(seen above) in a dance piece choreographed and performed by Lindsay Gilmour. “The East Wind” was inspired by the idea that the original meaning of the word “spinster” was The Fates. The two all white dresses act as counterpoint to “Wede.”
The piece was part of the show “No Translation Needed” at Ithaca College.
March 2008
“And When He Fell in Love with the Sea, She Sewed for Him Sails of Indigo”
A large-scale textile piece made from pieced denim salvaged from over 50 pairs of used jeans and dyed with Vat Technique indigo as well as photo-sensitive fabric sun-printed and over-dyed with indigo.
Site-specific pieces created as part of “COMPASS” the fist show of the One Stone Art Collective.
June 2009
“It Lead Her Straight to the Heart of Boo’s Tree.”
A mixed media piece of found objects assembled in the hollowed out stump of a tree. Site-specific pieces created as part of “COMPASS” the fist show of the One Stone Art Collective.
June 2009
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