Mark Your Calendar: Diem Chau and Danielle Giudici Wallis at Mark Wolfe Contemporary

Opening tonight, November 6, at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art in San Francisco: Simultaneous solo exhibitions from Seattle's Diem Chau and local sculptor Danielle Giudici Wallis.

Chau (previously blogged here), creates incredibly intricate and beautiful embroidered china and impossibly tiny and delicate carvings from crayons and pencils. Her work "drifts into new territory by exploring the periphery of the narrative, moments forgotten and faded, or too brief to retain." I simply think it's breathtaking.

Giudici Wallis's "surrealistic sculptural works explore 'place' and domesticity through the use of architectural references," toying with "the distance between private and public, interior and exterior, and physical versus psychological space."

The shows will be up at Mark Wolfe through December 24. Click here for more information.

The Artful Home: Diem Chau

I'm absolutely fascinated by these embroidered china pieces by Seattle artist Diem Chau, who came to the United States as a refugee from Vietnam when she was a child.

In the artist's own words, her work "combines common mediums and common means to create delicate vignettes of fleeting memory, gesture and form ... exploring the periphery of narrative, moments forgotten and faded, or too brief to retain."

I simply love the interplay of materials -- the hard, glossy porcelain juxtaposed against the soft, delicate, hand-rendered stitchery. In a word: Breathtaking.

Take a look:

See more of Chau's work right here.