Mastery and Materiality: International, highlights accomplished and engaging work by 17 artists from nine countries, represented by browngrotta arts. The group includes renowned Jacquard weavers Grethe Sorensen from Denmark and Lia Cook from the US, accomplished embroiderers Åse Ljones from Norway and Heidrun Schimmel from Germany, and fiber sculptors and weavers from the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Japan who work in seaweed, bark, wire, vintage paper straws, lead, and fish scales.

Exhibiting Artists
Found Underground Variation

Dorothy Gill Barnes

Found Underground Variation
mulberry
11.5 x 11x 10 in
$5,500
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On Inca Time

James Bassler

On Inca Time
four selvedge weaving (scaffold weave) handspun and commercial wool, silk, linen, ramie, sisal, cotton, natural and synthetic dyes
43 x 36.75 in
$16,000
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Scale Flowers

Marian Bijlenga

Scale Flowers
dyed Nile Perch fish scales
22.375 x 18.875 x 2.5 in
$2,800
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Ferni Aloe

Lia Cook

Ferni Aloe
cotton, rayon woven
20.25 x 15.75 x 2 in
$7,200
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Embraced by Nature II

Anda Klancic

Embraced by Nature II
embroidered viscose, flax, cotton, polyester, metal filament, PVA fabric
31 x 23 x 9.25 in
$9,700
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Coil

Sue Lawty

Coil
lead
15.25 x 12.25 x 1.5 in
$2,600
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Double Juncture

Sue Lawly

Double Juncture
lead
15.25 x 12.25 x 1.5 in
$2,600
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Drum-shaped seaweed vessel

Jeannet Leendertse

Drum-shaped seaweed vessel
coiled and stitched basket, Rockweed [ascophyllum nodosum], waxed linen, beeswax, tree resin
17 x 9.5 x 9.5 in
$3,500
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Dobbel Domino

Åse Ljones

Dobbel Domino
hand embroidery on linen, stretched on frame
56.675 x 57 x 2.5 in
$15,100
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Arm & Hammer

John McQueen

Arm & Hammer
twigs, twine, plastic from, Arm & Hammer detergient bottles
56 x 31 x 30 in
$24,000
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Threadbare

Heidrun Schimmel

Threadbare
stitched by hand, white cotton thread onto transparent black silk fabric, paper
32 x 17.75 x 2.5 in
$3,600
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Bound to Continue VII

Hisako Sekijima

Bound to Continue VII
oohamabo (hibiscus)
10.25 x 10.25 x 9.5 in
$2,400
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Fissures III

Karyl Sisson

Fissures III
vintage drinking straws, thread and polymer
16.5 x 16.5 x 1.75 in
$3,600
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Woven Detail I

Grethe Sørensen

Woven Detail I
handwoven cotton
28 x 43.125 x .875 in
$16,000
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Gray Stripes Sienna #265

Chiyoko Tanaka

Gray Stripes Sienna #265
handwoven ramie, rubbed with brick
15.5 x 23 in
$3,800
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Clytemnestra

Deborah Valoma

Clytemnestra
copper wire, woven, patinated, unwoven, wound, series of 5 balls
6 x 6 to 12 x 12 in
$5,000
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Bhavantu

Wendy Wahl

Bhavantu
1962 Encyclopædia Britannica pages, wood
24 x 24 x 3 in
$4,000
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Tapíz “El abrazo“

Carolina Yrarrázaval

Tapíz “El abrazo“
jute and linen
40 x 14 x 7 in
$5,400
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