Alice Van Leunen
Leap of Faith, 2010
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, metallic foil, fabric, stitching and poetic text. 40" x 32".
The work was a collaboration with poet KG Holland & includes her poem: Just before the Vanishing point A turnout is required From which to take The Leap of Faith.
Alice Van Leunen
Star Chart, 2019
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, India ink, bleach, metallic foil, stitching, acrylic rod, and dichroic glass. 20" x 32".
Star gazing at a mythological arrangement of constellations with personal significance.
Alice Van Leunen
The Bride Betrayed, 2001
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, metalic foil, metallic fabric, silk, acrylic rod, wood and wire. 32" x 40" x 3"
A therapeutic work relating to the Divorce From Hell.
Alice Van Leunen
Smoke and Mirrors, 2014
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, metallic foil, acrylic grid, wire, and floating layered paper and fabric units. 28" x 22"
One of a series of works with shapes of layered paper and fabric floating on a grid of wire-wrapped clear acrylic rods. The teal color on the backs of the floating units is reflected in the silver squares. A reference to the legerdemain of some artistic creations.
Alice Van Leunen
The Ice Nine Series: Crazing, 2015
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, metallic foil, stitching, acrylic rod, titanium wire, and fabric collage. 28" x 22".
One of a series of works based on "Cat's Cradle," the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, which is in part a commentary on the military-industrial complex and the destruction of the natural environment. Crazing is the spider web pattern of fractures found in some forms of ice.
Alice Van Leunen
Ain Soph Aur (Limitless Light), 2005
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, metallic foil, stitching and fabric collage. 40" x 32".
Ain Soph Aur is Hebrew for "the limitless light." In the Kabbalah, it represents the source from which all else comes forth.
Alice Van Leunen
Silver Lining, 2021
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, India ink, bleach, metallic foil, stitching, and fabric collage. 22" x 21".
A hopeful thought about what the nation and the planet have survived...so far.
Alice Van Leunen
Log Cabin V, 2017
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, stitching, and metallic fabric and Chiyogami paper collage. 28" x 22".
One of a series based on Log Cabin quilt designs, here with a Middle Eastern influence.
Alice Van Leunen
Eurus, 2018
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, fabric collage and dichroic glass. 30" x 29".
In Greek mythology, Eurus was the god of the east wind. The work is also one of a series based on Log Cabin quilt block patterns.
Alice Van Leunen
Delectable Mountains: The Water Woman’s Song, 2010
Mixed media / Woven paper with paint, Chiyogami paper collage, stitching, glass beads, mother-of-pearl buttons, and poetic text by Kelly Gill Holland. 30" x 46".
One of a series based on John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress." The shining Delectable Mountains were the place pilgrims rested before crossing the River of Death to enter the Celestial City. This work also refers to the button blankets of Northwest Coast Indian tribes. It was one of a number of works done in collaboration with poet Kelly Gill Holland. Her poem "Friend Otter Fashions the First Buttons" is in the lower part of the work: "This story tells how Friend Otter made the first buttons and helped Two-Eagle Woman bring water to the people. And it is why a pilgrim in the mountains may find shells there gathered by Friend Otter, even though his home is in the valley. So the people would have water / In the time before forever / Shells were gathered by Friend Otter / And he pierced them twice together / How can such shells hold water? / Asked the chieftain's lovely daughter / Watch, said Bearcub, I have seen her / Seen the great Two-Eagle Woman / Fasten capes of whitest snowflakes / To the shoulders of the mountains / Fasten with the otter's buttons / Snow capes deep and winter long / In the spring Two-Eagle Woman / Looses snow capes from the mountains / Melting them with wing-sweeps strong / So the people would have water / In the time before forever / And in every spring thereafter. / These are the words of Faithful Speaker / This is the Water Woman's song.
