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The Clearing
Michael Olszewski2008
- Attribution
- Michael Olszewski (American, b. 1950) United States
- Medium
- Silk and paper, crochet and crochet variations; appliquéd with silk, plain weaves, some printed, dyed, hole-punched, and discharge dyed and appliquéd with silk, ribbon; embroidered with silk; metal wire wrapped with silk; blocked
- Physical dimensions
- 75.6 × 74.1 × 5.1 cm (29 3/4 × 29 3/16 × 2 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society
CATALOGUE RECORD
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Source rights statement: © 2008 Michael Olszewski.
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This work returns to the emotional content expressed by the much earlier Mourning. It has a crocheted ground to which fabric elements and "marks" or signs have been added, and it incorporates the trace of a message at the top. Another textile in the series was described in a recent exhibition as "enjoyably unsettling," words that could be applied to many of Olszewski's pieces.
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