Claudia DeMonte
Claudia Bowling, 1984
Acrylic, glitter glue on pulp paper
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of Alessandro Figueroa
2020.10.02

“I started to make the doll figures be about me, but more universal. I was interested in all the things we do every day as women that art is never made about. It’s very different today. But, again, this is a long time ago. It was considered craft and not appropriate. You had to be serious; you couldn’t use certain materials. I mean the idea that you would use pulp paper, which is like a children’s clay material, and then make things about a woman’s daily life. Not the “important things” but the things we all spend hours a day doing that nobody honors.”

Claudia DeMonte in conversation with Melisa Christ and Alisha Kerlin, August 5, 2020.

Item description: A flat, textured, paper pulp sculpture of a woman in a long dress bowling. She is stood facing the bowling lane, her ball held close, while her dark hair and decorated gown billow behind.