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Anchors in time : Dominic Di Mare / by Signe S. Mayfield ; essays by W.S. Di Piero and Michael W. Monroe ; foreword by JoAnn Edwards.
Fine Arts Library NK8898.D56 A4 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayfield, Signe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Di Mare, Dominic, 1932---Exhibitions.
- Di Mare, Dominic.
- Di Mare, Dominic, 1932-.
- Fiberwork--Exhibitions.
- Fiberwork.
- Wall hangings--Exhibitions.
- Wall hangings.
- Paper sculpture--Exhibitions.
- Paper sculpture.
- Wood sculpture--Exhibitions.
- Wood sculpture.
- Soft sculpture--Exhibitions.
- Soft sculpture.
- Watercolor painting--Exhibitions.
- Watercolor painting.
- Arts and crafts movement--California--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Arts and crafts movement.
- California.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages, 124 leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Antioch, CA : Fine Arts Press in association with the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, 2018.
- Summary:
- Published in association with an exhibition of the same title presented at the Museum of Craft and Design from June 2, 2018 to October 28, 2018. The book documents the work of Dominic Di Mare who pioneered dimensional weaving in the 1960s and forged new sculptural directions with cast paper in the 1970s. He received further acclaim from the 1970s through the 1990s for expanding the use of mixed media in intimate sculptures: first by combining knotted linen with clay, and later by combining branches with delicate feathers, beads, paper, and horsehair. Though these are simple materials, in Di Mare's hands they were transformed into works seen as intensely poetic, enigmatic, or relaying a spiritual presence. In the past few decades, the object maker reset his compass to explore luminous watercolor on paper in a singular way. He made precise cutouts in his unique artist's books to provide alluring clues for subsequent pages, while in the flat watercolors of his surreal self-portrait series, he painted such dense compositions that there is an illusion of dimensional realms. The very name Di Mare translates as "of the sea" and is the legacy of his forebears. Repetition bears additional meanings within the heartbeat of his work. Dominic Di Mare's work is an eloquent reminder of art's power to transmute the personal into signs and symbols of the universal to connect with our own imagination.
- Notes:
- Published in association with an exhibition of the same title held at Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, June 2-October 28, 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780988578760
- 098857876X
- OCLC:
- 1020852378
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