Norma Minkowitz 7nm CHRYSALIS wood, fiber, paint, resin 58", x 23.5" x 10", 2004 $15,000

Selected collections and exhibition venues: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement); Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (Traditions/Transitions/ The Changing World of Fiber Art); LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York; Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Kwang Ju Museum, Korea; Montreal Museum of Art, Canada; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (Weaving the World, Contemporary Art of Linear Construction); Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt, Germany (Corporal Identity-Body Language, 9th Triennial for Form and Content). Recipient: Award, Master of the Medium, James Renwick Alliance; Visual Arts Fellowships, American Crafts Council; Grant, National Endowment for the Arts.

Norma Minkowitz 24nm MY BREATH fiber, fabric, wire resin and paint 14" x 18" x 12", 2007 $7,500

Statement: I seek mystery in the shadows of the work. The netting's effect is to blur the shape within. There is often paint on the surface, which can at times be invisible and at other times obvious depending on the light, another important element of my work. I want the openness to convey a sense of energy as the viewer moves around the sculpture. My work retains implications of containment and psychological complexity, while focusing on the human form and often the land-scape. I am engaged in a process that weaves the personal and universal together. The interlacing suggests a delicate quality symbolic of the human condition, but conversely, the pieces could also imply the strength of steel mesh. In many of my works twigs and branches are left inside, and are visible in an eerie way through the exterior of the sculpture, often suggesting connections to the human skeletal or circulatory systems. Despite the repeated use of the same basic stitch, no two are exactly alike. This conveys the intimacy and imperfection of the human hand while creating a movement akin to the cross hatching of a pen and ink drawing. The interlacing technique that I use makes it possible for me to convey the fragile, the hidden, and the mysterious qualities of my work, in psychological statements that invite the viewer to interpret and contemplate my art. I am still drawing, but with fiber.                                                           Norma Minkowitz

Norma Minkowitz 10nm REBIRTH OF VENUS fiber, wire resin, paint 58" x 54" x 8" 2004 $20,000