Kay Faye Fialkoff, long-time Fair Lawn resident and artist, will exhibit a series of embroidery masterworks, Prayers for the Earth, 1990-2018, at the Gallery in the Glen Rock Public Library. The exhibition will run from January 5 – January 31, 2024.
Ms. Fialkoff took inspiration from New Jersey’s wetland, meadowland, and woodland habitats including the Ramapo Valley County Reservation in Mahwah, the Celery Farm Nature Preserve in Allendale, the Glen Rock Duck Pond, the Saddle River County Park Glen Rock and Paramus (Dunkerhook), and Cape May. The embroidery masterworks celebrate Earth from the time granite formed over a half a billion years ago through our current era, the Cenozoic Era, a time of great diversification of flowering plants and birds. Her practice invokes the art of Zen, portraying nature over time and space.
Ms. Fialkoff is a member of the Fyke Nature Association, the Bergen County Audubon Society and the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Bergen Chapter. Her embroideries have been exhibited at the Paterson Museum in Paterson, the Belskie Museum of Art and Science in Closter, the Maurice M. Pine Free Public Library Pine Gallery in Fair Lawn, the Franklin Lakes Public Library Art Gallery in Franklin Lakes, the Waldwick Public Library Art Gallery in Waldwick and the Leonia Public Library in Leonia. Needle Arts magazine, a publication of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, published all of the works in feature articles from 1996 to 2022.
