Delphine Grandvaux

"Safe Harbor I", Airy Handmade Metal Mesh and Green Wool Pendant Sculpture

2020

This artwork named « Saghiaki » is a mesh work combining with felted wool, created and entirely handmade from annealed iron wire and green felting wool by the artist Delphine Grandvaux...

Elegance for its forms, sobriety for its materials, this sensual sculpture named « Being» is a meshwork combining with felted dark ginger wool, creat...

Titled "In vivo", this woven airy sculpture is created and woven by artist Delphine Grandvaux from metal wire. This artwork depicts bubbles of life,...

"Variations" is a metallic airy sculpture entirely hand-knitted by its creator Delphine Grandvaux from an iron wire coated in black and another one coated in golden. Being composed o...

"Expansion" is a metallic airy sculpture entirely hand-knitted from a galvanized iron wire and a varnished iron wire by its creator Delphine Grandvaux. Referring to the growth of an ...

Titled "Soma II," this sculpture is a three-part work by French sculptor Delphine Grandvaux, intricately hand-woven from black annealed iron wire, green lacquered iron wire, and yell...

Pair, sisal, wool, stilon, 125" x 77", 1989. This large figurative, abstract tapestry was done by textile artist, Lilla Kulka (b. 1946, Krakow, Poland). Artist Statement: "I creat...

Odchodzacy (Departure II), wool, cotton & stilon, 92" x 36", 1993. This large figurative, abstract tapestry was done by textile artist, Lilla Kulka (b. 1946, Krakow, Poland). Arti...

Traces, sisal and hand spun wool, 108" x 42", 1979. This large, figurative, mid-century modern tapestry was done by Polish textile artist, Lilla Kulka...

Acrylic paint, textiles and metal on wooden panel, ed. 1/3

The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts. The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation. Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD. In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...

This sculpture was inspired by my meditation memory when I felt complete peace within. This made me feel the power of the earth beneath me and the breath of the sky above me. I bel...