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186mm Mary Merkel-Hess
Long Basket
bark paper, reed, wood
8" x 9" x 24", 1993
$1,600
187mm Mary Merkel-Hess
Tall Reed (2)
reed, paper
28" x 15" x 9", 1998
$3,600 |
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179mm
In the Garden
Mary
Merkel-Hess
gampi, paper board
44" x 44" x 4
2008
$7,600 |
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185mm
Skies of the Mind
Mary Merkel-Hess
gampi paper, paperboard, gold leaf
16" x 22" x 22", 2011
$3,900 |
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184mm Ardon, Mary Merkel-Hess, reed, paper, paint, 12" x 28" x 7", 2009, $2,200 |
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183mm In Chephren's Temple
Mary Merkel-Hess, reed, paper and paint, (3) 31" x 18" x 18", 2010, $13,800 |
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175mm Clare
Mary Merkel-Hess
reed, paper, acrylic paint
37" x 26" x 10", 2008
$4,400 |
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178mm SWEPT AWAY
Mary Merkel-Hess, reed, paper board, paper, acrylic paint, UVLS coating, 13" x 52" x 3", 2009
$3,800 |
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Selected collections and exhibition venues:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York (Dual Vision: the Chazen Collection); Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas (The Art of Contemporary Fiber); Barbican Centre, London, UK (Threads: Contemporary American Basketry); National Gallery of Irish Craft, Kilkenny, Ireland (Fiber: A New World View); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Fuller Craft Museum (Pulp Function); Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin; LongHouse Foundation, East Hampton, New York; Renwick Gallery, national Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark (Celebrating American Craft); Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Informed by Nature, solo exhibition). |
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171mm Along the Horizon
reed, paper, acrylic paint, 10" x 30 x 4, 2007, $2,800 |
Statement:
My works usually begin with some sort of image, which could be very abstract. It might be a line of a grass, sometimes it’s just a color, sometimes it’s something about the quality of a whole landscape. And any inspiration I get, I usually feel has to result in more than one piece. Because a life of constant creativity, you can’t afford to pass up any good ideas. And then I usually go and make a scale drawing of the mold I’m going to build, or of the basket as I want it to be, or both. And sometimes I’ll have an inspiration for a long time without being able to think how to make the shape. So I have a notebook where I keep these things. And then I build the mold. Then I make layer upon layer of paper with these inclusions of reed or cord or whatever, and build it up. Eventually it comes off the mold, and then it needs to be shaped and painted. And I go through periods of using lots of color and then using no color and just concentrating on the form.
Mary Merkel-Hess |
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or to obtain information about other available works, contact:
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