Contemporary textile and fashion
Starting with hanging art by Michael Thorpe |
| "In Summer, Walk in the Background" 2024 Quilting cotton, batting and thread |
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| "Poor Hypnotic Subject" 2024 |
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| "Translation is as Direction" 2024 Tapestry, quilting cotton, and thread |
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| Ongoing construction at the Fuller Beau McCall Button sculpture and clothing |
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| detail of above |
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And now for the fashion show! |
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| Bruce buttoned in. You can always see something very contemporary, and wonderful at the Fuller. |
The Fuller Craft Museum is a remarkable small museum with large ideas. They are incredibly good at seeking out young, boundary-bending artists and succeed in showcasing some ferociously-gifted and skilled artists who push "craft" to very high levels of artistic success. We saw a metalsmith, a textile artist, and a surprising clothing designer and sculpturer who used buttons primarily as his medium.
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| All of this artist's sculpture was named by complicated number systems, not necessary to enjoy them. His computer planning-drawings were art in themselves. |
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| about 4' tall |
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| 5" wide |
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| about 6" long |
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| about 8"tall |
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| computer plan |
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| Bruce |
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| about 5" long |
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| 4" tall |
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| 12" long |
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| each 3"-4" |
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| This was an exhibit of a collaborative effort to bring art to the neighborhood basketball court. |
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| IOrene |
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| Jessica Calderwood, b.1978 "On Top of the World" 2007 about 2" square Enamel on Copper From an exhibition of contemporary portraits: |
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| James Carter "Portrait" 2014 Acrylic on panel |
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| Gary Bolding "Self Portrait with Neck Zits" 1998 Oil on Panel |
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| Sergei Isupov "Portrait Series" 2012-13 Porcelain, slip and glaze (about 1" square!) |
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| Yuval Mahler "Mao" 2008 Painted resin |
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| Lidija Tkalcevic "Ines" 2005 High-fired clay, stain, and oxide |
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| James Valerio "Self Poertrait" 2000 Graphite on paper (!!!) |
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| Noi Volkov "Salvadore" 2011 Glazed earthenware (surprising coincidence since we were to visit the MFA for the Dali exhibit the next day!) |
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| Jenny Dubnau "Tim Looking Up" Oil on canvas astounding technical achievement More in the next blog! |
With a visit from Nova Scotia from Brother Bruce and wife Irena, we jumped at the chance to take them to some local museums, which they had said they were extremely interested in. First on the list was the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, which they had not visited. So here is a record of our visit, and dinner at my favorite restaurant in the North End, "L'Osteria" And to double our pleasure, grandchildren Jackson and Oliver joined us both at the museum and at dinner.
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| Susan, Jackson and Oliver |
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| The spectacular courtyard |
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| In the staircase |
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| For the first time ever, I took the audio tours, which only highlight a few works in each room (there are almost no labels for the art). This was an exquisite piece by Fra Angelica |
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| Isabella's desk |
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| A Sargent watercolor of Isabella at the end, in poor health. |
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| And another Sargent of Isabella at a chiold |
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| Susan, Jackson and Oliver entering St. Leonard's church, North End |
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| Jackson, Oliver, Bruce attacking the calamari |
