Deb Schlier

The Fantasy Wings Collection Deb Schlier

Now available in paperback, this Catalog Raisonne and Fashion Collection of feather wing designs by the contemporary artist, Deb Schlier includes over 90 full-color pages of design images, fashion plates, and gallery scenes with a brief history of the artist. Also included is a selected listing of all the artist's exhibitions, periodicals, curated shows and published works throughout a vast career. The collection explores themes around fantasy wing personas in color schemes appropriate to each main subject. A must for the collector of fantasy art, fashion design, and female empowerment quotes.

Blue, or pink, with white feather wings become themes of heavenly dreams. Browns and golds become the flight of the Phoenix. Reds and greens become a tropical bird in paradise. Black feathers conjur themes of three-eyed ravens conquering time and space. Brilliant blues and greens nestle into stylized, flowing peacock wings. The masterful color palettes, compositions, and stylized symbolism create mesmerizing dreamworlds and fields of imagery that ignite a secret life of their own.

Each work is purposefully made to tickle the senses and feast the eyes...to emotionally carry the viewer to otherworlds of spiritually charged realities. They are thoughtfully designed to emphasize, side by side, a comfortingfamiliarity along with a mysterious sense of beauty. Each design becomes a particular vision of self, and the viewer is enveloped within its message of female empowerment to strive higher and accept the challenge of personal advancement.

To more fully captivate the viewer even more, each design is printed as textile art and used in fashion design. In this way, the viewer not only imagines the fantasy through the visual art, but also lives inside the fantasy when wearing the garment.

This book will appeal to both fashion lovers, as well museum-goers, academics, students, curators, and collectors.