Michael Olszewski (American, b. 1950)
United States
The Clearing
INV-2175
Michael Olszewski (American, b. 1950)
United States2008
21st Centurytextilefiber art
Date
2008
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
Dimensions
75.6 × 74.1 × 5.1 cm (29 3/4 × 29 3/16 × 2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society
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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