Mosaic - art
'Swing Left' by Kelley Knickerbocker
- Item Number
- 164
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 300 USD to cb69cf192
- Number of Bids
- 22 - Bid History
Item Description
Item: Mosaic wall panel
Size: 10 x 9 inch, 25cm x 23cm
Materials: glass, ceramic, bone, metal, raffia, cement, pigment
“I work in mosaic because its rhythm of blocks and spaces form a dimensional communication system that feels like my native tongue. I choose a new “alphabet” for each work—natural materials, found objects, sometimes the waste of the studio process itself, such as used paper towels and random blobs of hardened cement mortar—and rely on their color, shape, texture and arrangement to make them readable.
Currently I’m “speaking” only in the tones between black and white. The elemental purity of this palette both eases and challenges my creative process. As in the electronic communications—texts, emails, tweets, clicks—that rule the rest of my human interactions and force distillation of concept and context into very few words, my choices are fewer, which is restful, but each choice seems finer, weightier; hence the challenge”.
Visual artist Kelley Knickerbocker left a 22-yr administrative career at the University of Washington in 2006 to found a mosaic studio (Rivenworks Mosaics, Seattle) and begin designing/ fabricating/installing mosaic artwork for public, commercial, residential and gallery environments. Kelley’s ruggedly dimensional mosaic artworks are a textural distillation of her fascination with contrast, material properties and the technical challenges of mosaic construction. Her work is widely collected and regularly exhibited in the US and abroad. In addition to her studio practice, Kelley travels extensively speaking, collaborating, and teaching in-depth workshops on mosaic style and technique.
Kelley Knickerbocker ~ Rivenworks Mosaics
Website: www.RivenworksMosaics.com
Washington, USA
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