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Label Text Fensterstock is an artist, educator, and curator based in Maine. Her work deals in connections between nature and craft, past and present, and excess versus minimalism.. In recent years she has created sculptures of objects such as mirrors and cabinets covered in shells and stalagmite formations, mimicking the decorative grottos found in Baroque architecture. The works are then layered in black rubber, obscuring detail, and making the work seem a bit foreboding as well as more modern. Scrying 1, 2017, is from a series containing scrying mirrors, believed in folklore to show the future. The black mirror here is also inspired by 18th-century "Claude Mirrors," used by tourists to make landscapes look like picturesque paintings. Source: DMAC NEWS Sep Oct Nov Dec 2021
DimensionsOverall: 58 × 33 × 6 in. (147.3 × 83.8 × 15.2 cm)
Accession Number 2021.7
Classificationssculpture
ProvenanceArtist; (Claire Oliver Gallery, New York); Larry and Rita Sibrack, Naples, FL [acquired by 2021]; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2021]
Scrying 1
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sander, Des Moines
Anonymous
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Anonymous
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Anonymous
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Joyce J. Scott
2018
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Jill Giegerich
1987
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Rachel Whiteread
1995-1996
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Henri Laurens
1952
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Anonymous
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Kiki Smith
1995