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82ks JACOB'S LADDER
Karyl Sisson, old cloth tape measures and polymer, 4" x 24" x 19"; 10cm x 61cm x 48cm, 2008
$7,000 |
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81ks LOOSE ENDS, Karyl Sisson, old cloth tape measures and polymer 18" x 62" x 7", 2008
$18,000 |
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2ks ORANGE, BLACK & YELLOW(SET)
Karyl Sisson, vintage buttons and old hairpins, 5.5"(h) x 6" x 6" each, 1986, $2,400 |
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76ks MOODY BLUE, Karyl Sisson, old cotton/rayon ribbon, thread & minature wood clothespins
9" x 20" x 15", 2003, $8,000 |
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34ks VESSEL XXI, Karyl Sisson, clothespins, cotton twill tape, thread, 7" x 16" x 4", 1995, $3,400
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73ks HOLY SMOKE IV
Karyl Sisson, plastic cigarette tips, metal hairpins, ball chain, 3.75" x 4 x 11.25", 1999, $1,000 |
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45ks OPENING UP
Karyl Sisson
cotton twill tape, thread wood spring clothespins
13.5" x 27" x 20", 1997
$7,600 |
Selected collections and exhibition venues:
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania (The Tactile Vessel, curated by Jack Lenor Larsen); Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France; Crafts Council, UK (Contemporary International Basketmaking, traveling exhibition); M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California (The Art of Craft: Works from the Saxe Collection); Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington (Trashformations: Recycled Materials in Contemporary American Art and Design); Renwick Musuem, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Barbican Centre, London, England; Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin; Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California (Dorothy Saxe Invitational: New Works/Old Story: 80 Artists at the Passover Table); Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; (Craft in America: Expanding Tradition, traveling exhibition); Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin (Basketworks: The Cotsen Contemporary American Basket Collection); Oakland Museum, California (HELLO AGAIN! A New Wave of Recycled Art & Design). |
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3ks STEP CONTAINER III
Karyl Sisson,
miniature wood clothespins and wire
12.5" x 11.5" x 11.5", 1992
$4,000 |
Statement:
Patterning and texture are intrinsic to my forms. They create a tactile and suggestive quality that evokes physical and psychological themes of deep interest to me. For years I have rummaged through junk stores and scoured flea markets salvaging cloth, sewing notions and related items from domestic life. My focus has been the transformation of these familiar objects through the building of form and the development of structures that suggest living organisms, indigenous architecture or ceramic vessels. These collectibles serve as building materials while any number of basketry and needlework techniques provide the method of construction.
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