The Artist
Doshi aspires to “coax the festivity out of the ordinary.”
Internationally renowned for textile dyeing, artwork, and wearable art designs, Doshi spent thirty years as a costume designer for artistic and athletic events, including theater, dance, ice-skating, stunt shows, and television. In 1998, she started a line of wearable art and began exhibiting in galleries throughout the United States.
Always fascinated with nature, in 2020 Doshi turned to printing on fabric with plant leaves and flowers. She combines an exploration of shaped resist dyeing and eco-printing with a striking color palette to create work that pulsates with energy.
About Doshi
The colors, textures and patterns in the fabulous and revealing world of resist dyed fabrics and botanical printing express my meditations of my journey in this life. Exploring botanical printing, I became engrossed in the nature of leaves and plants. Watching this eternal dance of seasons and celebrating nature’s ever changing rhythms.
As I explore new possibilities in my work as an artist, I have found an essential expression of my spirit. The soft edges, shapes and shadows left in the fabric; the colors that resonate with the essence of the life experience; the textures that reflect the dynamism and sensuality of life’s richness; all create dynamic, graceful and evocative statements that inspire me to create personal and expressive textiles.
I have been honored to create solo exhibitions and take part in juried and invitational shows. My fiber work has been seen at the Mingei International Museum and Visions Art Museum in San Diego, The Brewhouse Arts Center in England, Palos Verdes Art Center, The International Shibori Symposium in Oaxaca, and Convergence.
I was further honored to teach Costume Design at CSULB for 38 years, supervising a graduate MFA program.
Silently sitting by the window.
Leaves fall and flowers bloom.
The seasons come and go.
Could there be a better life? —-Zen Poem
Leaves fall and flowers bloom.
The seasons come and go.
Could there be a better life? —-Zen Poem
Juried Exhibitions
-a selected list (1999-2023) *solos shows
- Elegant Threads - Lighthouse Arts, Tequesta FL
- Influencers - Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Contemporary Perspectives in Fiber - Cannon Gallery, CA
- *Where the Light Enters - Visions Textile Art Museum, CA
- Transcendent Silk - Silk Painters Intl. Biennial, Arrowmont, TN
- A Closer Look - Beatrice Woods Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA
- Forms In Wood & Fiber – Mingei Intl. Museum, CA
- 10th Intl. Shibori Symposium – Oaxaca, Mexico
- Dancing with Shadows – San Diego, CA
- The Dancing Kimono – San Diego, CA
- Atmosphere – Brewhouse Arts Center, England, UK
- Atmosphere – Newport Museum, South Wales, UK
- *The Dancing Kimono – Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
- Beyond Warp & Weft – Cannon Gallery, CA
- CA Fibers 40 Years – San Bernardino, CA
- Coast to Coast – Visions Art Museum, CA
- Eclectic Threads – Oceanside Museum of Art, CA
- Cirque, Cirque – Santa Fe Weaving Gallery, NM
- Fiber as Medium – John Wayne Intl. Airport, CA
- *Changing Seasons – La Jolla, CA
- CA Contemporary Craft – Laguna Art Museum, CA
- CA Dreaming – Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, FL
- In the Grand Scheme – Grey Gallery, MI
- Low/High Attitude -Univ. of CO Art Gallery, CO
- The Threads of Our Lives – Santa Fe, NM
- *The Subject Tonight is Love – La Jolla, CA
- Wearable Expressions – Palos Verdes Art Center
- Winter Wearables – Katie Gingrass Gallery, WI
- Design With HeArt – Textura Gallery, Carmel, CA
COSTUME DESIGN – TV, VIDEO & THEME PARKS
(a representative list)
Mother Earth
Celebration
Celebration
Waterworld
Baywatch; Beach Blanket Ski Party; Sizzling City Ice; World Rhythms On Ice
Voyages of
Discovery
Discovery
Night
Crawlers
Crawlers
COSTUME DESIGN – THEATRE & DANCE
(a representative list)
Charms; Sleepwalk; Dream Baby; Cocktails With Joey
Nutcracker
Firebird
Firebird
Othello; Troillus And Cressida, Taming of the Shrew
Julias Caesar; Comedy of Errors
Honorary & Professional Memberships
The Artist
Doshi aspires to “coax the festivity out of the ordinary.”
Internationally renowned for textile dyeing, artwork, and wearable art designs, Doshi spent thirty years as a costume designer for artistic and athletic events, including theater, dance, ice-skating, stunt shows, and television. In 1998, she started a line of wearable art and began exhibiting in galleries throughout the United States.
Always fascinated with nature, in 2020 Doshi turned to printing on fabric with plant leaves and flowers. She combines an exploration of shaped resist dyeing and eco-printing with a striking color palette to create work that pulsates with energy
About Doshi
The colors, textures and patterns in the fabulous and revealing world of resist dyed fabrics and botanical printing express my meditations of my journey in this life. Exploring botanical printing, I became engrossed in the nature of leaves and plants. Watching this eternal dance of seasons and celebrating nature’s ever changing rhythms.
As I explore new possibilities in my work as an artist, I have found an essential expression of my spirit. The soft edges, shapes and shadows left in the fabric; the colors that resonate with the essence of the life experience; the textures that reflect the dynamism and sensuality of life’s richness; all create dynamic, graceful and evocative statements that inspire me to create personal and expressive textiles.
I have been honored to create solo exhibitions and take part in juried and invitational shows. My fiber work has been seen at the Mingei International Museum and Visions Art Museum in San Diego, The Brewhouse Arts Center in England, Palos Verdes Art Center, The International Shibori Symposium in Oaxaca, and Convergence.
I was further honored to teach Costume Design at CSULB for 38 years, supervising a graduate MFA program.
Silently sitting by the window.
Leaves fall and flowers bloom.
The seasons come and go.
Could there be a better life? —-Zen Poem
Leaves fall and flowers bloom.
The seasons come and go.
Could there be a better life? —-Zen Poem
Juried Exhibitions
-a selected list (1999-2023) *solos shows
- Elegant Threads - Lighthouse Arts, Tequesta FL
- Influencers - Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Contemporary Perspectives in Fiber - Cannon Gallery, CA
- *Where the Light Enters - Visions Textile Art Museum, CA
- Transcendent Silk - Silk Painters Intl. Biennial, Arrowmont, TN
- A Closer Look - Beatrice Woods Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA
- Forms In Wood & Fiber – Mingei Intl. Museum, CA
- 10th Intl. Shibori Symposium – Oaxaca, Mexico
- Dancing with Shadows – San Diego, CA
- The Dancing Kimono – San Diego, CA
- Atmosphere – Brewhouse Arts Center, England, UK
- Atmosphere – Newport Museum, South Wales, UK
- *The Dancing Kimono – Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
- Beyond Warp & Weft – Cannon Gallery, CA
- CA Fibers 40 Years – San Bernardino, CA
- Coast to Coast – Visions Art Museum, CA
- Eclectic Threads – Oceanside Museum of Art, CA
- Cirque, Cirque – Santa Fe Weaving Gallery, NM
- Fiber as Medium – John Wayne Intl. Airport, CA
- *Changing Seasons – La Jolla, CA
- CA Contemporary Craft – Laguna Art Museum, CA
- CA Dreaming – Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, FL
- In the Grand Scheme – Grey Gallery, MI
- Low/High Attitude -Univ. of CO Art Gallery, CO
- The Threads of Our Lives – Santa Fe, NM
- *The Subject Tonight is Love – La Jolla, CA
- Wearable Expressions – Palos Verdes Art Center
- Winter Wearables – Katie Gingrass Gallery, WI
- Design With HeArt – Textura Gallery, Carmel, CA
COSTUME DESIGN – TV, VIDEO & THEME PARKS
(a representative list)
Mother Earth
Celebration
Waterworld
Baywatch; Beach Blanket Ski Party; Sizzling City Ice; World Rhythms On Ice
Voyages of Discovery
Night Crawlers
COSTUME DESIGN – THEATRE & DANCE
(a representative list)
Charms; Sleepwalk; Dream Baby;
Cocktails With Joey
Cocktails With Joey
Nutcracker
Firebird
Othello; Troillus And Cressida,
Taming of the Shrew
Taming of the Shrew
Julias Caesar; Comedy of Errors
Honorary & Professional Memberships
