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“In a Venn diagram my work occupies a space where
painting, sculpture, and craft
intersect. An obsessive focus on color and composition are taken from my formal training as a painter. My paintings became sculptures when I began constructing compositions out of things instead of paint because I needed to touch, push and pull the forms more physically than with just a brush. Often those things are craft materials used with tech- niques like sewing, beading, and weaving. This a language I learned as a child in West Virginia from my mother, who knit and sewed. Whether my work takes the form of a draw- ing, paint, sculpture, weaving, or installation, the pieces
I make are eccentric abstraction. They are constructed from everyday objects and materials, but are transformed into elaborate ornamental forms.”
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Abiding Cube
beads and wire 4 1/2'' x 4 1/2'' x 4 1/2''
Katherine Daniels