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Jane Knight'Ziggurat' by Fiber Artist Jane Knight Studio Crafted Textile Installation 1970scirca 1970s
circa 1970s
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Textile installation by fiber artist Jane Knight titled 'Ziggurat'. This work is comprised of 9 vertical elements with multiple loops at the top. It is signed with an embossed copper plaque. Each element consists of hundreds of raw strands of jute pulled taught and encompassed through a tedious hand-twining process with colorful wool fibers. This piece was made in her Detroit workshop in the 1970s. Excellent Condition.
Jane Knight (1928-2013) was born in Grosse Pointe and received her BFA from the University of Michigan, School of Art and Architecture in 1951. After graduation, she worked as the Art Director for the Detroit-based luxury department store JL Hudsons and designed for the Cranbrook Theater School. Due to her husband’s employment at Eero Saarinen and Associates she was embraced by a community of cutting-edge designers and architects at the epicenter of the modernism movement including Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames and Alexander Girard, to name a few.
Jane was an avid world traveller who always viewed the world magically with her creative eye. As an art collector herself she highly regarded the work of Alexander Calder and Henri Matisse. Throughout her career, she created numerous freestanding, wall-mounted, and suspended fiber art sculptures for countless interior environments. Her artwork has been featured in books on fiber design, exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, and is included in several corporate collections including Borge Warner and Chrysler.
Jane Knight’s body of work is a product of her perpetual need to create art and a constant conviction that one’s home should be a continual environmental stimulus. Her wall hangings, considered her most important works, are comprised of brightly colored woolen strands encapsulating heavy lengths of jute fibers. These captivating works of art epitomize the vibrancy and textural exuberance characteristic of the fiber art movement throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
- Creator:Jane Knight
- Creation Year:circa 1970s
- Dimensions:Height: 54 in (137.16 cm)Width: 21 in (53.34 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Dallas, TX
- Reference Number:Seller: SKU000004341stDibs: LU2854216137262
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