Born 1975, Vineland, NJ
EDUCATION:
1997
BFA, Cum Laude, Sculpture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1998
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Studio Assistant, Fibers and Textile Design, Gatlinburg, TN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008
The Seditious Stitch, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, The Center, Hailey, ID
2007
One Way Or The Other, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, KS
2005
Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Sweet and Strange Narratives, Earle Wright Gallery, Cowley College, Ark City, KS
2004
Domestic Plastic, Friendship Gallery, McPherson College, Mcpherson, KS
Subversive Stitches, Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Macomb, IL
2003
Domestic Plastic, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, KS
2002
Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, KS
2001
Nine-Patch, Clayton Staples Gallery, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
1999
Mixed Media Textiles, The Wellness Center, Billings, MT
1998
Few, Some, Many: Stitched Imagery and Sculpture, Northwest Gallery, Powell, WY
1997
Symbols and Vestments, Westcott Community Center, Syracuse, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2008
Red Dot Art Fair (w/Tinlark Gallery), New York, NY
Time Flies, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Traditional Skills, New Thinking, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk, England
The Affair at the Jupiter Hotel (w/Tinlark Gallery), Portland, OR
Raised in Craftivity, Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO
Modern Fables, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gender Stitchery, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN
Sugar Buzz, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Pins and Needles: Maggy Rozycki Hiltner and Melissa Haviland, Lederer Gallery, SUNY Geneseo School of the Arts, Geneseo, NY
Back to the Fifties, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY2006
Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Art In Textiles/ 3 Perspectives, shack up, Bozeman, MT
Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
Needle Culture, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
New Embroidery, Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR
Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Family Experience, Museum of Fine Arts,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2005
The Subversive Stitch, Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Extra/ordinary: fiber artists rethinking art…, The Cube at Beco, Kansas City, MO
Surfaced, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Constants & Variables, Lynn Foundation Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2004
Cross-Stitch: Craft Redefined, The Bank/Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, MO
River Market Regional Exhibition, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
New Directions in Fiber, CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
2003
Scope Miami (w/ Byron Cohen Gallery), Miami FL
Short Stories, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Fiber Focus 2003, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO
Taking Shape: 10 Artists Reveal Their Processes, Salina Art Center, Salina , KS
2002
Gone Wrong, CityArts, Wichita, KS
Fiber Arts 2002, Gallery 510, Decatur, IL
Small Expressions 2002, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2001
Kansas Artist Craftsman Invitational, Delmar Riney Gallery, Pratt, KS
Director’s Show 2001, CityArts, Wichita, KS
Fiber Directions 2001, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
2000
CRAFTFORMS 2000, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Fiber & Textile Exhibit, Crossman Gallery, UW-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
Natürlich, Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, KS
1999
Small Works, ACME Gallery, Wichita, KS
USA Craft Today 99, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1998
Arrowmont Summer Assistants Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Feats of Clay XI, Lincoln Arts, Lincoln, CA
Seeing Red, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Women, Art, Change, Westcott Community Center, Syracuse, NY
1997
Hunger, ArtSpace/Lima Center for the Visual Arts, Lima, OH
Monarch National Ceramic Competition, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, AL
1996
Stitchery at Syracuse, Central New York Embroidery Guild, Liverpool, NY
Inspired By Nature, Thousand Islands Craft School, Clayton, NY
Healing Works, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Blueroom, Installation with Jenny Kanzler and Elise Kendrot, The Drawing Room, Syracuse, NY
1995
White Swelling, Installation with Jenny Kanzler, The Drawing Room, Syracuse, NY
Dimension Dementia, Printmaking Council Gallery, Somerville, NJ
PUBLICATIONS:
2008
Rachel Abrahamson. "Dreamweavers, The substance of textile arts." Boise Weekly, (AprIL 2)
Karen Bossick. "One Way or the Other - a unique look at nostalgia." The Wood River Journal, (February 19)
Laura Caruso. "Maggy Rozycki Hiltner at The Center, Hailey." SunValleyonline, (February 15)
2007
Martha Schwendener. "Sugar Buzz." The New York Times, (May 11)
Prudence F. Roberts. "New Embroidery: Not Your Grandma's Doily." Selvedge, Issue 14
Bean Gilsdorf. “New Embroidery: Not Your Grandma’s Doily.” Fiberarts, (January/February) p 60, 61
Caitlin Fawcett. "Pins and Needles Exhibit Integrates Dual Artistic Visions." The Lamron, (February 1)
Shirley Dawson. "Exhibit Looks At Women's Traditional Roles." Rochester Demograt and Chronicle, (January 28)2006
Robert Taylor. “Yarn art gets a modern makeover at Bedford.” ContraCostra Times, (September 28)
Natasha Boas. “Modern Landscapes.” domino, (September) pp 66 -69
Jessica Hemmings. “Child's Play.” Embroidery, (March/April) p 16-19
2005
Liz Good. “Under the Surface.” Fiberarts, (Sept/Oct) p 80
Theresa Bembnister. “Fiber exhibit tackles contemporary themes.” The Kansas City Star, (July 1)
Rebecca Braverman. “Extra/Ordinary: Fiber Artists Rethinking Art and Everyday Life.” The Pitch, (June 9)
Cover Image. “Summer Scouts.” F5, (April 28) p 1
Blair Shulman. “Future Stitch.” Review, (March) p 46
2004
Theresa Bembnister and Gina Kaufman. “Cross Stitch, Craft Medium Redefined.” The Pitch, (November 5)
Robin Trafton. “Midwest Visions.” The Kansas City Star, (July 30) p 31
Jonathan Hicks. “A Stitch in Time.” The Western Courier, (April 8)
Fiberarts Design Book 7, Asheville, NC: Lark Books, Spring 2004
Maria Buszek. “Riddles of the Self.” Review, (February) p 57
2003
Kate Hackman. “Pop culture inspires ‘Stories’ exhibit.” The Kansas City Star, (December 12) p 21
Chris Shull. “Maid in Wichita.” The Wichita Eagle, (January 24) p 24C
Nancy Hull. “The Process of Art.” The Salina Journal, (January 17) p 1,7D
2002
Staff Writer. “Maggy Rozycki Hiltner.” Portfolio, American Craft, (December/January) p 62
2001
Chris Shull. “A Stitch In Time.” The Wichita Eagle, (February 4) p 8D
2000
Victoria Donohoe. “Three area venues host national exhibits.” Philadelphia Inquirer, (December 31) p 1
Marie Fowler. “CraftForms 2000 honors local artists in Wayne.” Arcade, (December 7)
1999
Michael Carmichael. “The Road to Art.” Veranda, (May-June) p 132
1998
Staff Writer. “Fiber Art on Display in Powell.” The Billings Gazette, (November 6) p 12D
1997
1997 Sally Vallongo. “Probing Hunger Through Art.” The Blade: Toledo, Ohio, (November 5) pp 37, 39
ARTIST STATEMENT
My head is a big snowglobe with bits of facts and news, memories, images present and past, illustrations from children’s books or instruction manuals, quotes, conversations and song lyrics swirling randomly. Connections between these things emerge for me when my hands are busy with my needle and thread.
Fabric and stitching are familiar to most people: a comfortable and innocuous medium. We all have the experience of childhood in common, with its daily doses of beauty, anxiety, joy and pain. Common childhood events span socioeconomic class, race and gender differences. With these images I am trying to evoke recognition in others of the amazing oddness and commonalities of our individual and connected lives. I like the narratives to be ambiguous and interpretable.
“Is it autobiography if parts of it are not true? Is it fiction if parts of it are?---Lynda Barry
My work is hand-stitched, and I work on top of or with pieces of found textiles. These discarded household goods have a history of some other person’s place, actions and time. I often find these trivial decorations to be ominously full of double meanings. I use carefully planned neat stitches in contrast with kinetic playful scratchy ones to move the narrative and give voice to the characters. I like when the work feels like a Home Ec project gone awry.
-Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
