Her most recent curatorial project was «Rosemary Mayer: Conceptual Work and
Early Fabric Sculptures, 1969 - 1973,» curated with Marie and Max Warsh, on the process - based text work and early fabric sculpture of the founding member of the feminist collective A.I.R..
Not exact matches
In «Cell XXVI», the hanging
fabric figure is a variation on an
earlier sculpture, «Spiral Woman».
These works are a departure from her
earlier compressed
fabric sculptures, riotous subversions of minimalist forms.
Drawn to soft and pliable materials including
fabric, hide, and rubber, Hlobo's
early sculptures and ritualistic performances were equally informed by traditional Xhosa culture and gay pageantry; his most recent solo exhibition, «Sewing Saw,» attempted to deconstruct his attraction to malleable raw materials.
They are supplemented by two
early paintings, several drawings and, most important, 23
sculptures that sum up her various sculptural uses of wood, bronze, marble, resin and stuffed
fabric.
Some of the
earliest works by Christo and Jeanne - Claude were «wrappings» in which the artists wrapped a variety of objects in tightly bound
fabric, creating abstract
sculptures out of everyday items.
Cumulatively, the works in the exhibition continue Hammond's post-minimal engagement with materials and process and a survivor aesthetic that began with her
fabric sculptures in the
early 1970s while also anticipating her materially informed paintings of the last decade.
The
sculptures in this exhibition recall in size some of the
early domestically - scaled Accumulations, for which Kusama covered such things as ironing boards and travel valises in the stuffed -
fabric protuberances, yet the works on view here are painted in the style that has come to characterize Kusama's most recent paintings.
She began working on provisory, almost ruin - like looking
sculptures as
early as the 1960s, using materials that she still employs to date: plywood, cardboard,
fabric, plaster, interior paint, plastic, foam or cement.
Since the
early 1990s Lappas has become recognizable with his monochromatic, figurative
sculptures, in human scale, assembled with materials such as steel, aluminium, plastic, polyester,
fabrics and neon.
In addition to the
fabric heads, it also included a series of cell - like vitrines housing curious scenes of ecstasy and torture; a group of totemic figures, reinterpreting in
fabric her
early sculptures from the 1940s and»50s, and a selection of graphic works.