A paper-view exhibit

Lincoln City’s Fiber Arts Studio Gallery is hosting a beautiful new exhibit by Susan Webb Rebecchi entitled “Articulated Fantasy Sculpture.”

The show opens with a public reception this Friday, Jan. 26, beginning at 2 pm, with an artist talk at 3 pm.

Rebecchi grew up on the Oregon Coast but spent her professional years as a textile designer in New York City. Her initial experience was as a designer and colorist in the studio of the French home furnishing company Brunschwig and Fils. After 10 years working with museum documents and supervising the manufacturing of fabrics and wall covering, she decided that she was ready to work independently. She created her own company and licensed her original designs in the US and Europe.


During her 35 years as a designer she had the opportunity to travel, researching design and overseeing the manufacturing of her work in Europe, India, Morocco and Japan. In 2010, she returned to Oregon with her husband where she continued working from her Portland studio. Being in Oregon offered Rebecchi the opportunity to explore new creative directions and mediums. She also began sharing her creative process and love of historic design through lectures to students and professionals. This body of work, including many articulated paper sculptures and vignettes, were inspired by Rebecchi’s love of fantasy and nature. As a traveler and textile designer she is fascinated by Persian, Indian and Oriental motifs with their stylized, fantastic vision of nature. She also loves the idea of a possible animated character and the imagined world they might live in. These characters are prototypes for further creative projects.

These magical characters and their fantastical environments will be on display through March 31 at the Fiber Arts Studio Gallery, located inside the Lincoln City Cultural Center at 540 NE Hwy. 101, open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm.

For more information, go to lincolncity-culturalcenter.org or call 541-994-9994.