Kentucky Image: Old Barn Roof

The internationally known fiber artist Arturo Alonzo Sandoval was born in New Mexico, trained at California State College in Los Angeles and the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan, and has been a member of the art faculty at the University of Kentucky since 1974. Throughout his career, he has been acclaimed for his experimental techniques and mixed media constructions, which often incorporate quilting, weaving, and interlacing of high-tech photo-images, acetate transparencies, netting, painted fabrics, and webbing. In his Kentucky Image Series, he was inspired by Kentucky barns, one of the more imposing forms of the Commonwealth landscape. The sculptural draping and subtle earth tones of Old Barn Roof evoke the dilapidated, weathered roofs of worn farm structures.