Deitch filled the Gramercy Hotel's penthouse with ornate furniture and
cellophane curtains to approximate Stettheimer's studio at 80 West 40th Street, where she hosted one of the city's great salons, which counted among its guests the critic Henry McBride, as well as Georgia O'Keefe and Marcel Duchamp.
«Then, Stettheimer was still known only to insiders,» said Mr. Deitch, who used
cellophane curtains and gilded white furniture to evoke the artist's early - 20th - century salon, and juxtaposed Stettheimer's frothy paintings of her illustrious friends with works by Elizabeth Peyton, Jeff Koons and Jane Kaplowitz.
Albers explored the functional possibilities of textiles with focus and passion; in 1930, she designed a cotton and
cellophane curtain that simultaneously absorbed sound and reflected light.
Not exact matches
Paint - splattered
cellophane dangling from the ceiling like shower
curtains; mounds of powder, polystyrene, and topsoil molded into giant wedding cakes; colorful bars of soap carved like rock candy — it all may appear sugary sweet at the outset, but Karla Black's latest sculptures are hardly the aftermath of a baby shower.
POPE.L Sunny Day White Power 2016 Acrylic,
cellophane tape, charcoal, collage, gel medium, ink, latex mask, oil paint, oil stick, painter's tape, push pins, and rope on newspaper on shower
curtain in artist's frame 90 3/4 by 74 by 24 in.