Exploration & Innovation at The Front Porch Gallery

California Fibers: Exploration & Innovation was at the Front Porch Gallery in Carlsbad, CA, from May 21-July 8, 2017. If you didn't make it to the show, here's what you missed.

Michael F. Rohde's pieces Jubilant and Dichotomy, flanking Mary Beth Schwarzenberger's Flower Power Redux

Doshi, Stone Steps

Mary Beth Schwarzenberger's Sunrise Sunset

Detail of Sunrise Sunset

Linda Anderson's Joshua Is Jazz

Gail Fraser's Web of Threads I and II

Gail Fraser's June Doom

Doshi, Garden Secrets

Kathy Nida's Earth Daughter and Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's Marking Time #9

Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's Marking Time #9, Lynne Hodgman's Twining Prepositions, and Kathy Nida's By All Means

Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee's Marking Time #9

Kathy Nida's Earth Daughter

Kathy Nida's By All Means

Lynne Hodgman's Split Infinitives

Linda Anderson's Musicman of Jaipur

Doshi, Garden Secrets

Cameron Taylor-Brown, Majestic Stone: Pisac Ruins, Peru, and Majestic Stone: Machu Picchu, Peru

Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Hidden Refuge

and a detail of Hidden Refuge

A side view of Lynne Hodgman's Flowing Subjunctives

And a detail of Flowing Subjunctives

Charlotte Bird, End of the Season

Lori Zimmerman, Mending 1.4

Zimmerman's Mending 2.0

A closeup of Zimmerman's Mending 1.2

Chari Myers, Indigo Rhapsody

Charlotte Bird, Fruiting Body #10

Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Web of Textures

Rebecca Smith, Contexture

Polly Jacobs Giacchina, If It Moves

Peggy Wiedemann, Springtime Nest

Peggy Wiedemann, In Celebration of Twirling (pedestal) and smaller pieces by Lydia Tjioe Hall

Lydia Tjioe Hall, Three in One

Tjioe Hall, Wood Shell and Spokes

Tjioe Hall, Copper and Steel Woven

Tjioe Hall, Steel Brass and Tigers Eye

Tjioe Hall, Spokes Wood and Bead

Rebecca Smith, Light Source

Charlotte Bird, Autumn Leaf

Michael F. Rohde, Techtonic

A view of the gallery during the opening

Another view during the opening

Another view, with artists Polly Jacobs Giacchina and Doshi in the foreground.

A view of some of the work

Another view of the gallery

A view of the front section of the gallery