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"You clean Patricia Dreher's paintings
with a mop: they're canvas rugs. The Berkeley-based artist uses
acrylic paints on sturdy artist's canvas and seals the designs with several
coats of water-based polyurethane. She makes area rugs and larger
rugs for wall-to-wall installations. You can lay the painted canvas
directly on the floor (with or without a pad) or glue it down like vinyl
flooring.Most of Dreher's
paintings are non-representational and combine geometric shapes and muted
colors, but she will include narrative images on request. She
tailors each design to its setting. The 5- by 9-foot example shown
here, which resembles a swath of inlaid tile, creates a focal point for
the entry. The rug is the width of the front door and borrows from
surrounding fabrics, furniture, and walls for its color palette."
Sunset Magazine Feb. '97
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