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Michele Oka Doner Stoneware Figurines Female Torso w/Legs Phallic Shaped Spear

Name: Michele Oka Doner Stoneware Figurines Female Torso w/Legs Phallic Shaped Spear
Brand: Michele Oka Doner
Price: 18000 USD

About the Item

Two Untitled pieces made of ceramic with black matt markings are exquisite and purely Michele Oka Doner works. On September 22, 2022, Michelle Oka Doner was a lecturer at the University of Michigan's Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series in which she showed images of this very set remarking that this "was my favorite set of pieces" and she wished she still had them. The warm creamy color of the unglazed ceramic contrasts with the back matt markings of incised linear designs that identify Ms. Oka Doner's artistic sculptures. The one form can be seen as female because of the slightly bulging breasts, hips and thighs reminiscent of the most ancient pieces of sculpture in existence - the venius forms - most of which lack, like Oka Doner's, a head, or feet, or arms. The companion piece, a long phallic shaped form, is also reminiscent of the most basic shape to identify the male - the penis. The female form measures 17 x 5 x 3 and the male form measures 21 x 3 x 3. Michele Oka Doner (born in Miami Beach, Florida, United States) is an American artist and author who works in a variety of media including sculpture, prints, drawings, functional objects and video. She has also worked in costume and set design and has created over 40 public and private permanent art installations. She is best known for her “A Walk On The Beach,” a one and a quarter mile long bronze and terrazzo concourse at Miami International Airport. It is composed of over 9000 bronzes embedded in terrazzo with mother-of-pearl. At one and quarter linear miles, it is one of the largest artworks in the world. She is granddaughter of painter, Samuel Heller. She attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her art instructor Milton Cohen was experimenting with The Space Theater and George Manupelli began the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Their students were engaged in poetry, dance, light, music, all combined into a unitary vision, a motif that shaped Oka Doner's student years and is characteristic of her work today. She participated in a Manupelli experimental film, a "Map Read" performance with art drawing instructor Al Loving and Judsonite dancer Steve Paxton as well as several "Happenings." Another influence was art historian and Islamic scholar, Oleg Grabar, who illustrated how patterns in architecture are able to dissolve space. She received her BS and MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2008 she was a U of M Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York; Diane Brown Gallery, New York; Art & Industrie Gallery, New York; Willoughby, Marlborough Gallery, New York; Studio Stefania Miscetti in Rome; and Gloria Luria Gallery in Miami, Florida. During the 1960s Michele Oka Doner was living and working in Detroit, Michigan, where she became acquainted with Charles McGee and his gallery located in the Fisher Building. They became collaborators in his artists' studio and both began a new adventure of making handmade paper. Recent solo exhibitions include the Manitoga Arts Center, Garrison, New York (2019), the Marlborough Gallery, New York (2019), the Perez Art Museum Miami (2016), the David Gill Gallery, London (2016), the Marlborough Gallery, New York (2015), Christies gallery, New York (2014), the Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, NY, where she was interviewed by artist, Adam Fuss, and at Miami Biennale (2011). Her first video, A Walk on the Beach premiered at Art Basel Miami Beach (2011) in the public screenings "Art Video" program in SoundScape Park on the 7,000 square foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center.

Creator:

Michele Oka Doner (Artist)

Dimensions:

Height: 21 in (53.34 cm)Width: 3 in (7.62 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 2

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Ceramic,Hand-Crafted

Place of Origin:

United States