01 / Sculpture & installation
Soon
An installation of more than 30,000 plastic spoons, made for the 2008 Everson Biennial.
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Form becomes pattern.
Pattern becomes a world of its own.
Maire
Kennedy.
Sphere series, 2012–2016 · Studio detailImage from the artist’s website
A practice in repetition
01 — 03
01 — 03
From the sculptural to the surface: familiar materials, multiplied into unexpected forms.
01 / Selected work
Sculpture &
installation
Everyday objects accumulate into forms that evoke the natural world. Explore seven projects from the artist’s archive.
02 / Sculpture & installation
Awl
Polystyrene bowls rise beneath and beside a spiral staircase at the Everson Museum of Art.
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03 / Sculpture & installation
[sic]
An exploration of life forces, membranes and imperfect replication.
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04 / Sculpture & installation
Offer
Approximately 15,000 nylon zip ties form a cornucopia or fungus-like shape.
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05 / Sculpture & installation
Lie
Hotel-sized bars of soap arranged on a wall in a DNA layout.
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06 / Sculpture & installation
Mnemonic
Blank and used discs assembled in the proportions of a single World Trade Center tower.
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07 / Sculpture & installation
Tête-à-tête
A schematic for a work made with industrial paint chips, bringing Tetris and the idea of tête-à-tête together.
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Into the repeat
Photographed sculptural forms are scaled and multiplied into digital repeat patterns. The original site names these two designs Coral and Pollen.
03 / Design archive
Textiles for
everyday life
The original portfolio presents home textile samples, bedding sets labeled Michael Aram and Karl Lagerfeld, and client-directed apparel patterns. Project roles and reuse rights should be confirmed with the artist.
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Client-directed surface patterns for the apparel market, as presented on the original portfolio.
The practice
Making more
from the ordinary.
The artist’s existing site describes a practice spanning sculpture, installation and textile design. Its statement considers repetition, contradiction and the transformation of mass-produced materials.
This concept presents selected material from that public archive. Dates, present-day details and image permissions need the artist’s confirmation.
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Fungi · Image from the artist’s website