KAY SEKIMACHI Japanese-American MASTER WEAVER Illustrated Catalog 2018
KAY SEKIMACHI MASTER WEAVER - INNOVATIONS IN FORMS AND MATERIALS. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name that took place at the Fresno Art Museum July 14 2018 - January 6, 2019. Published by the Fresno Art Museum, 2018, first edition.
Softcovers, French folds, 9x10 inches, 87 pages. Fully ILLUSTRATED with color photographs of Sekimachi's woven artworks.
VERY GOOD condition: a bit of shelf rubbing to the covers, else tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy.
About KAY SEKIMACHI (from Wikipedia):
******Kay Sekimachi, b.1926, is an American fiber artist and weaver, best known for her three-dimensional woven monofilament hangings as well as her intricate baskets and bowls. She was born to first generation Japanese Americans Takao Sekimachi and Wakuri Sekimachi. After the signing of Executive Order 9066, Sekimachi was interned with her family at Tanforan Assembly Center and then the Topaz War Relocation Center from 1942 to 1944. From 1946 to 1949 she attended the California College of the Arts where, when she visited the weaving room and saw students working on looms, she spent her entire savings on a loom the following day. She started her art career weaving clothing and two dimensional wall pieces. In the summer of 1954 Sekimachi studied with Trude Guermonprez of whom she said: "Trude opened my eyes that weaving doesn't have to be utilitarian." Sekimachi and Gurmonprez developed a close friendship. Sekimachi started experimenting with nylon monofilament hangings and weaving off loom. Her complex three dimensional nylon hangings were featured in several major exhibitions of the fiber arts movement, including Wall Hangings at the Museum of Modern Art (1969), Deliberate Entanglements at UCLA (1971) and the Biennale Internationale de la apisserie, Lausanne Switzerland in 1975 and 1983. Her later works comprised small woven baskets and woven Japanese style boxes. Her works are held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Smithsonian Institution, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere.******