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61nmb PEBBLES IN A STREAM
Nancy Moore Bess, cane, bamboo, waxed cotton, linen, and acrylic, 7" x 43" x 8", 2005-6
$12,000
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78nmb Pods, Seeds & Pollen: Scarlet Pimpernel, Nancy Moore Bess
waxed cotton, linen, acrylic, encaustic and industrial foam, 6" x 7" x 6", 2011, $4,500 |
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60nmb ANIMISTIC SPIRIT (the supernatural in Japan), Nancy Moore Bess
waxed cotton, persimmon tannin, acrylic paint, 9" x 20" x 7"; 23cm x 51cm x 18cm, 2005
$6,400 |
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77nmb PODS, SEEDS & POLLEN: STONECROP, Nancy Moore Bess
waxed linen and cotton, twined-over gessoed industrial foam, 7" x 20" x 9", 2011, $6,000
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"Two years ago my artist friend, Elin Noble, showed me some books she had purchased for her husband, Lasse Antonsen. The books were immediately inspiring! Written by Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler in collaboration with the famous KEW Gardens in London, seeds were scanned with electron microscopy to reveal their elaborate designs. For many the undulations, wings and hairs facilitate flight in air…thus, distributing afar! If you think papayas are beautiful, you should see the full page image of one seed."
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76nmb
Glacial Planes
Nancy Moore Bess
waxed cotton, linen, wax, gessoed industrial foam
16.5" x 11" x 10", 2009
$6,000 |
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75nmb KAKI SHIBU
Nancy Moore Bess, waxed cotton and linen, persimmon tannin, gessoed foam & cane
8.5" x 7" x 5.5"; 5" x 4.25" x 4", 2009, $3,400
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71nmb JAKAGO I
Nancy Moore Bess
dyed kiln dried Japanese bamboo, waxed linen and cotton
7.5" x 4" x 4", 2007
$2,200 |
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62nmb
AT WATER’S EDGE
Nancy Moore Bess
dyed cane, bamboo, waxed cotton and linen, carved industrial foam, acrylic
9” x 11” x 9”, 2006
$4,800 |
Selected collections and exhibition venues:
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin; Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania (The Tactile Vessel, curated by Jack Lenor Larsen, traveling exhibition); Barbican Centre, London, England (Threads: Contemporary American Basketry); Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Szombathely Art Museum, Hungary (12th International Biennial of Miniature Textiles); Nagoya, Japan (Textiles: 4th International Textile Competition); University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu (7th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition); Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe (Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection); Long Beach Museum of Art, California; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California; National Crafts Council of Ireland, Kilkenny (Fiber: A New World View); Society for Arts & Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts (No Boundaries: Contemporary Basketry). Author: Bamboo in Japan. |
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| 70nmb FROM DIALGUE TO MONOLOGUE, Nancy Moore Bess, waxed cotton & linen, Chinese incesnce box lid, 6" x 5.5" x 5.5", 2007, $1,000 |
Statement:
For me there are several dates that I celebrate because they changed my life. One was certainly finding my first basketry class in spring 1972 – California farm girl learns to weave baskets at the Crafts Student’s League on 8th Avenue in New York City! Another would be my purchase of How to Wrap Five Eggs and the exposure that book gave me to traditional Japanese packaging, the inspiration for much of my work for many years. My first trip to Japan in the fall of 1986 changed my life forever, introducing me to the world of Japanese bamboo and basketry with an intimacy I had not anticipated. Inspired by that trip and many that followed, the publication of my book, Bamboo in Japan in 2001 marked the culmination of years of research in Japan, Hawaii, and New York City.
Somehow all of those influences – basketry, Japan, Japanese packaging, bamboo – merged into one career of over thirty years, in which no part stands alone. Had I not traveled extensively in Japan, my basketry would not be what it is today; I would not have benefited from my months in Honolulu, I would not have been invited to India; I would not have written the book; I would not know what I know nor sought what I seek. What an interesting life it is turning out to be.
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To purchase the artwork of Nancy Moore Bess
or to obtain information about other available works, contact:
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