Trish Maharam

Story Maps

Showing September 4-26, 2009

Seattle artist Trish Maharam hand-stitches cotton thread on layers of mostly transparent silk to create delicate, ethereal embroidered works that evoke topographical maps of fields and water. She describes this new body of work as Story Maps, which “represent a place as it is perceived by an individual or a by a culture moving through it. They are records of specific journeys, organized around the passage of the traveler, and their perimeters are the perimeters of the sight or experience of that traveler.” Maharam has been making art all her life. She has worked in a variety of mediums including writing, drawing, and most recently has focused on working with hand-stitching fabric. This is Maharam’s first exhibition at Davidson Galleries.