Detail View: University Art Galleries (UMassD): Vestiduraz de Cal y Canto

exhibition_title: 
Clay, Fiber, Metal
exhibition_dates: 
November 4 - November 21 1979
exhibition_year: 
1979
exhibition_genre: 
artisanry ( craft )
resourceID: 
14002_013_0029
resourceID: 
14002_013_0030
resource_type: 
slides
copyright notice: 
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credit line: 
Claire T. Carney Library - Archives and Special Collections
artist name: 
de Amaral, Olga
artist_nationality: 
Columbian
artist_vital dates: 
1935 -
artist_biographical note: 
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Olga de Amaral studied fabric art at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Amaral is a renowned artist whose evolving technique, incorporating fiber, paint, gesso and precious metals transforms two-dimensional textiles into sculptural works that seamlessly integrate art, craft, and design. In their engagement with materials and process her works become essentially unclassifiable and self-reflexively authentic. Amaral is an important figure in the development of post-war Latin American abstraction. Her creation of "off stretcher" works, using non-traditional materials, acquires greater historical resonance with each passing year. Amaral founded and directed the textiles department at the Universidad de los Andes (University of the Andes) in Bogotá in 1965. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, and in 2005 was named "Artist Visionary" by the Museum of Art and Design in New York. In 2008, she was honorary Co-Chair for the benefit of the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Amaral has exhibited in institutions worldwide and the full range of her work is represented in the collections of over forty museums including the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, San Francisco's De Young Museum, the Museum Bellerive in Zürich, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Renwick Gallery of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
artist_URL: 
http://www.olgadeamaral.com/
work_title: 
Vestiduraz de Cal Y Canto
work_title: 
Vestiduraz de Cal y Canto
work_medium: 
Wool, mixed fibers and paint
work_technique: 
fiber arts
work_technique: 
fiber arts - direct painting
work_date: 
ca.1979
work_reference: 
Clay Fiber Metal (National Invitational Exhibition) Catalog
date_of_ record: 
2015/03/24
name_cataloger: 
ajc