“Untitled” is a large fiber piece with a flowing organic form. Not only is it visually similar to a landscape painting, but overtones of Helen Frankenthauler’s abstract layers of color can be identified. In addition, there is a light and airy floating feeling as though watching clouds before a storm or smoke from a fire. So many interpretations can be seen in this complex fiber sculpture.
Robert Louis Kidd was an American fiber artist, weaving instructor, and gallery owner. He was born in 1936 in Birmingham, Michigan, and received his Masters of Fine Art from The Cranbrook Academy of Art where he was head of their fiber department from 1967 to 1969. The Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, that was designed by architect and faculty member, Eliel Saarinen who collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames on chair and furniture design. Numerous creative artists who are alumni of Cranbrook include: Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Jack Lenor Larsen, Donald Lipski, Duane Hanson, Nick Cave, Hani Rashid, George Nelson, Urban Jupena (Nationally recognized fiber artist), Artis Lane (the first African-American artist to have her sculpture, "Sojourner Truth," commissioned for the Emancipation Hall in the Capital Visitor Center in Washington DC), Cory Puhlman (televised Pastry Chef extraordinaire), Thom O’Connor (Lithographs), Paul Evans (Brutalist-inspired sculpted metal furnishings), Eugene Caples (small bronze images/abstract), Morris Brose...
Category
Late 20th Century Constructivist Sculptures
MaterialsTextile, Wool, Canvas, Thread, Yarn