Elise Winters on Oct 30 2009 | Filed under: RAM Polymer Collection, Racine Art Museum, Voulkos
Pier Voulkos, Neckpiece (detail), c. 1995 (see credits below)
As a reader of this website, you’re familiar with the “Collection Project,” our effort to put polymer art on the map and into the permanent collections of major museums throughout the nation.
In order to ensure publication of the first hardcover museum catalog on the medium, and to [...]
Elise Winters on Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: Bishoff, Sculpting Color, Winters
Elise Winters, Red RUFFLE Ruche, 2009
polymer, acrylic
8 x 9 x 1″, promised gift, Newark Museum
My artist’s statement read:
“Concern for color and light has followed me through every phase of my artistic career.
Elise Winters on Oct 16 2009 | Filed under: Dustin, Fuller Craft Museum, Sculpting Color
Kathleen Dustin, Allium Pod, 2008
3’h x 3’w x 9”d
Polymer clay
Kathleen commented:
“To fulfill it’s educational mission, The Fuller Craft Museum likes to have pieces that people can touch included in their exhibitions, and I allowed them to use my table sculpture, “Allium Pod” for this purpose in the exhibition “Sculpting Color: Works in Polymer Clay”. The [...]
Elise Winters on Oct 09 2009 | Filed under: Diffendaffer, Gozonar, McCambly, Sculpting Color
Grant Diffendaffer, Cosmic Ray, 2009
Polymer clay, poplar, thread, rod, glue
3 x 12 x 6″
Grant wrote about his pieces saying:
These pieces are relics of my engagement with the era of Raygun Gothic design. Come with me as we go back to the future as it was imagined in the first part of the 20th century - [...]
Elise Winters on Oct 02 2009 | Filed under: Dustin, Ford, Forlano, Hughes, Sculpting Color, Zimmerman
Steven Ford & David Forlano, Char, 2002
Wood, polymer clay, magnets, steel, sterling silver,
21.5 x 13 x 5″
The Curator’s Statement for Sculpting Color currently at the Fuller Craft Museum reads:
“Unlike any other materials in fine craft, polymer clay has no ancient history, no millennium as a utilitarian art form, no past masters from which to draw [...]