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Weaver-Painter Ghent
518-672-4393.
wildbraidart.com
mvidibor@yahoo.com
The Art of Marlene Yvette Caller Vidibor; Member, Columbia Berkshire Craft Guild; Faculty, IS183 ArtSchool, Stockbridge,Ma.
Marlene Caller, grew up amidst a sea of fibers. The yarn, thread and fabric her mother and grandmother knit, crocheted
and sewed, the wire her father used, the papers of books the family read, the music her mother and she played and the watercolor
paper she painted, all informed her earliest memories; as did the streetmen hawking, I buy old clothes for rags to be turned
into paper for the war effort.
Handwork was inescapable in the Caller-Newmark household. She learned by watching; her grandmother cut patterns from
newspaper on the kitchen floor for clothing sewed by hand; her mother sew curtains and embroider linens; her father create
wire armatures for inventions out of wire, make household repairs using thread, string, and wire. Her piano teacher taught
lessons on copying designer patterns from store displays. A couture seamstress aunt, showed her how to salvage mistakes
opening Marlene's eyes to create out of chance and error.
Childhood summers spent on a farm where the colors and patterns of wild and cultivated flora and fauna in woods, fields,
orchards and pastures, all came together. It was here that she made the earliest piece in the show, Beaded V-Neck Collar.
Inspired by Native American patterns she the spiral, remains a motif in her work today. Throughout her life, Vidibor learned
to interpret designs she saw in books, stores and museums, and adapt them to her own taste in color, shape and construction,
eventually inventing free form knitted and crocheted designs that she embellished and adorned with old jewelry findings and
beads. These became the elaborate wall hangings seen here.
She returned to fabric and paper in collage form in turn combining it with watercolor. Beading became freeform jewelry
and objects d'art. Vidibor later became a published poet, printing and making her own books. Her work appears in anthologies,
websites and her handmade books have appeared in libraries in NY & NJ.
Vidibor has had a solo museum exhibit of her fiber work, and many gallery shows in NYC, NJ, Maine and Upstate NY. She
has won awards for her fiber from the NJ Center for Visual Arts in NJ, and among others 1st prize in mixed media at the Columbia
County Council on the Arts(CCCA) 2006 Juried Show. Her fiber, bead and collage work has been widely seen in Columbia and
Berkshire area and is in the artist's registry of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Vidibor currently works out of
her studio in Ghent and offers workshops in libraries, schools or homes.
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