Healing the Despair (Woman's Work Series)
- Mixed Media
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24 x 28 in
(60.96 x 71.12 cm)
- Marlene Zander Gutierrez
Piece is reminiscent of a quilt square. There's a base square made of canvas. It was painted to look like different colored fabrics sewn together. There are hand draw "seams" along the edges where the different colored bars meet. The border has a different colored square at every corner and different colored rectangle in-between them. Different colors segments break the central space into four quadrants. At the center of each of those segments a hole was cut into the canvas. Filing the holes from behind are photographs of couples with captions hand written underneath them. The central square is collaged to the canvas. It is a doiley (textile piece), that according to the artist's inscription on the back was made by her aunt, Karolina Hiller. The doiley is symmetrical in composition and is comprised of squares and a central diamond formed by ribbons.
- Framed: 27.5 x 31 x 2.5 in (69.85 x 78.74 x 6.35 cm)
- Created: 1985
- Inventory Number: 1987.01.01
- Collections: Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, Paper Works