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Gin StoneUNNATURAL DECAY SERIES, Wood Wall Sculpture: 'Silver Maple No. 1'2024
2024
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*Recovered Ghost Gear Data: Retrieval Coordinates: 42° 10ʹ N 69° 52ʹ W
Retrieval Vessel: F/V Donna Marie (Groundfish Trawler/Scallop Dragger out of Provincetown) Water Depth: approx. 100 fathoms/183 meters/600 feet
Source: pre-Magnuson-Stevens Act* foreign, most likely Russian, fishing net
What should be decay that takes place naturally in the environment has been supplanted by plastics. In this case a tree slice, normally is broken down by mosses and fungus, are dripping instead with look-alikes created with ghost gear netting dredged from the ocean floor in the Atlantic off cape cod. The fiber has been colored in my studio with natural and fabric dyes.
Wood slices were sustainably harvested from dead trees, which were destined to become firewood and saved for their beauty in Pennsylvania.
Environmental Advocacy
"I will inhale smoke and exhale butterflies"
This quote, gleaned from a dream, encapsulates my need to take man’s pollution of this world and transform it into something of nature.
As a multidisciplinary artist, I explore the possibility of a material’s ability to transform. My focus is on fiber and mixed media constructions and installations that convey environmental activism, while incorporating material based sub-text. My materials include commercially fished line, ghost gear, recycled and antique textiles as well as found objects, which come together to create a universe only slightly different from our own.
The resulting effect is a cocktail of science, culture, nature, myth, history, and ritual, inhabiting the space of its viewers with intrigue while inspiring thoughtful dialogue of how material can be both physical as well as an abstract concept. The beauty inherent in nature is brought to life to craft a portrait of meaning and movement, while building chapters on evolution and ecology. An installation approach I frequently employ is the natural history museum style of diorama.
Born in New York in 1971, I now live and work in a studio located on a spit of sand on coastal Massachusetts.
- Creator:Gin Stone (1971, American)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU422314649862
Gin Stone
From 1989 until 2010, Gin Stone worked solely as a painter- this background gave her a strong knowledge of color and form. Over a decade ago, she began experimenting with textile, particularly reclaimed fishing gear and line. From trial and error with different types of gear, she found that longline, used to commercially fish haddock and cod local to her studio, could be hand-dyed and manipulated into a strong color pallet with a uniform gauge. She create three dimensional work by cutting and re-piecing material to make the animal’s ‘pelt’s. Other details are hand carved from shell, stone, wood and metal. In 2018, she was invited by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to conduct a course at the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Museum School on exploring new processes and creating a cohesive body work. Stone is a PAAM member with her work in their permanent collection alongside such notables as Robert Motherwell, Hans Hoffman and Edward Hopper. Stone has delivered talks at the Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA; the Fountain Street Gallery, Boston; and the Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge. In collaboration with Fountain Street, Chandler and Kathryn Schultz galleries, she has curated several shows in the Boston and Cambridge area. Her work has been included in exhibitions by such notable curators as Randi Hopkins, Director of Visual Arts Boston Center for the Arts; Paul Ha, Director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center; and Sam Tager, Independent Curator and Exhibition Designer. Gin has been awarded grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. Born in New York in 1971, Stone currently lives and works in eastern coastal Massachusetts.
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