This quilt was first pieced together as an interactive sculpture as part of a show “Cut from the Same Cloth” at The Great Highway Gallery in June of 2022. Images of the sculpture installed in this show are displayed here. More information from that show can be found on the gallery’s website. The artist statement from this show is copied below.

Following the show, the sculpture was dismantled and the quilted cover was deconstructed and re-pieced into this quilt. As such, there are some irregularities including some small staple holes in the fabric.

The quilt involves fabric dyed with a number of different natural dye stuffs including” indigo, eucalyptus, pine bark, dyers chamomile, oak galls & iron, coreopsis, and cochineal. Fabric used is primarily 12oz canvas. Canvas is made from West Texas Organic Cotton that was custom woven by Huston Textiles in California. It also includes other pieces of cotton and linen.

Quilt measures roughly 52” x 58”

Artist Statement for “Cut from the Same Cloth”

Jonathan Gold, the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize, once said of his native Los Angeles that it is an “anti-melting pot – less a melting pot but a great, glittering mosaic.” Cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco provide an urban backdrop where the idea of a multicultural melting pot is rejected and, instead, a “glimmering mosaic” can emerge. Countless new ideas in art, food, architecture and everything in-between emerge not just from the individual pieces that produce these mosaics, but, as Gold says when “huge numbers of multiple cultures that live in the city come together in this beautiful and haphazard fashion, the fault lines between them is sometimes where you find the most beautiful things.” This image conjured from this glittering mosaic metaphor is one that feels familiar as you drive the avenues of the Outer Sunset. Repetition and patterns emerge as pass rows of identical Doelger homes varying only in the tinting of their salt-faded colors.

In this window installation, Matt Katsaros explores this metaphor through quilted sculptures constructed from fabric dyed mostly using local plant materials. The central sculpture, dressed in a quilt of repeating patterns, shapes, and colors is made in response to the last eight years living in the Outer Sunset. This piece invites viewers to peek into its hull where a video can be seen displaying archival images of locations across the Sunset from the 2018 project “Collective Geographies” by artist Kelley O’Leary.