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Place of Origin: Ivorian
Contemporary Giraffe Iron Sculpture, with Use of Tools and Other Objects C20
Located in Coimbra, PT
Giraffe by José Jerónimo single piece of art
Iron sculpture with use of tools and other objects
Signed
Measures: 81 x 41 x 15 cm.
Private collection.
Category
Late 20th Century Tribal Ivorian Animal Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Iron
Contemporary Giraffe Iron Sculpture, with Use of Tools and Other Objects C20
Located in Coimbra, PT
Giraffe by José Jerónimo single piece of art
Iron sculpture with use of tools and other objects
Signed
Measures: 81 x 41 x 15 cm.
Private collection.
Category
Late 20th Century Tribal Ivorian Animal Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Metal
Vintage African Tribal Mask
Located in Dallas, TX
Vintage African tribal mask from the ivory coast now mounted on museum stand. Provenance available.
Category
Mid-20th Century Ivorian Animal Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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1985 Undergraduate Photography Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
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2006 Show us Your Drawers, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
2006 Marriage of the Minds, Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2006 27th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
2006 Containers of All Dimensions, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
2005 Transformation 5: Contemporary Works in Found Materials, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2004 Right at Home: American Studio Furniture, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2004 American Collections, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2004 More Than Drawers-Wisconsin Cabinets, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
2004 Objects of Wonder, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2003 Planting, Potting and Pruning, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI
2003 Men at Work, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2002 Case Pieces: Contemporary Studio Furniture, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Univ of WI-Madison
2002 Sitting Pretty: Contemporary Wisconsin Chairs, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
2001 Anything with a Drawer - Award Recipient, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
2001 23rd Annual Contemporary Crafts - Award Recipient, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
2000 New Talent in Craft, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, Wisconsin
2000 Who Knows Where or When, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, Wisconsin
1999 The End is Near! Artists look at the 20th Century, Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI
Selected collections
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, Arizona
The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Indianapolis, Indiana
The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
Publications
“Selected Artists of Door County” Stonehill Publishing, 2016
“Galvanized Chest” Door County Living Magazine, Autumn 2012
“100 Artists of the Midwest” Schiffer Books, 2012
“Piecework” American Craft Magazine, February 2012
“Hiding Places, Memory in the Arts” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, June 2011
“Second Lives, Remixing the Ordinary” Museum of Arts and Design, NY, August 2008
“Studio Furniture” Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC, May 2008
“Discoveries by Designers” Architectural Digest, December 2005
“Contemporary Metal Furniture” Metalsmith Magazine, Winter 2003
“Studio Case Furniture: The Inside Story” American Craft Magazine, October 2002
“Contemporary Studio Case Furniture: The Inside Story” Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2002
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