It is always a thrill when someone enjoys my art enough to want to purchase it and make it theirs. This is almost doubly true when the art is purchased by a university, hospital art collection or corporate collector. I am fortunate to have many of my pieces in academic and corporate collections in Kentucky and Tennessee.
“ Strangers in My Mind” was purchased in November 2024 by congregants of and as a gift to Faith Lutheran Church in Lexington, Kentucky. The piece hangs in their main lobby. This painting is acrylic on canvas and is 36” x 36”.
“Le Quattro Stagioni” (The Four Season). This is a quartet of fabric collages that each depict an abstraction of rural Italy in a particular season. From left to right, they are la primavera (spring), l’estate (summer), l’autunno (autumn) and l’inverno (winter). These were purchased by the Jessamine County Public Library and hang in their main lobby in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
“Blossom in Purple and Yellow” is a fabric collage that was first exhibited in August 2013 in a two artist exhibit at Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tennessee. The exhibit, in conjunction with artist Phyllis Boger, was entitled “Fabricated Fiori”. In March 2014, the piece was against exhibited in a solo exhibit entitled “Fab-ri-ca-tion”. This exhibit was held at MS Rezny Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky. The piece was purchased for and now hangs in the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts & Design Library at the University of Kentucky.
“ The Seven Chakras” is a fabric collage that was exhibited in a two artist exhibit at Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tennessee in January 2010. That exhibit entitled “Raw Silk” was in collaboration with Memphis artist, Phyllis Boger. A review of that exhibit reads, in part:
Christian Brothers University’s current exhibition “Raw Silk” provides viewers with the opportunity to see the collages and silk paintings of two accomplished fabric artists working at the top of their form.
It’s late autumn in Japanese Tojii, Constance Grayson’s most evocative collage, in which hundreds of pieces ofkimono and Japanese money, stamps, advertising flyers, and vintage postcards are layered and stitched into a deeply textured tapestry of the gardens, sea coast. mountains, and Shinto shrines of Japan. Grayson takes us through the gate of a shrine into the courtyard beyond where a tiny figure (the only human presence in the piece) meditates in the garden.
Review written by art critic, Carol Knowles, The Memphis Flyer, February 18, 2010.
“The Seven Chakras” is now part of the permanent collection of Christian Brothers University.
The University of Kentucky Healthcare System has a world class art collection. I was thrilled when Paessagio I was purchased to be included in that collection. This fabric collage is composed of commercial and vintage fabric and thread and depicts a typical Umbrian countryside scene. At the same time, UK Healthcare purchased another fabric collage “Poppy”, a piece that had been previously chosen for the cover of the August/September 2014 issue of Quilting Arts Magaziner.
This acrylic painting “Lost in the Blues” and “Ezekiel Saw the Wheel” were both exhibited in the Go Big or Go Home exhibit I had at the Gateway Regional Art Center in Mt. Sterling, KY. The paintings are 36” x 36” and are acrylic on canvas. They were purchased by the Mt. Sterling Medical Center.
Le Bonheur Hospital in Memphis, TN purchased three of my fabric collages to display in the doctor’s dining room in that hospital. The pieces are “Stamen”, “Stacye’s Photograph I” and “Stacye’s Photograph IV”.