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Basketry
Invitational
The Fifth Annual Basketry Invi-
tational at the Sybaris Gallery
will run through May 28. It will
feature the work of over 30 fiber
artists from the United States
and Japan. Its focus is on pre-
senting work which raises ques-
tions and breaks with the past,
with the familiar and the ex-
pected, with what we thought we
knew a basket was.
John McQueen originally
trained as a sculptor. Mr. Mc-
Queen proves that abstract form
can contain our deepest thoughts.
Hisako Sekijima's elegantly re-
strained forms of plaited mul-
berry bark or Kudza vine attend
to the welcome eccentricities and
subtle variations of material. Mr.
Sekijima works in a "partner-
ship" with the materials rather
than imposing a fixed plan on
them.
John Garrett and Katherine
Westphal are two other influen-
tial artists in the contemporary
basket movement. Mr. Garrett
works mainly with metal strips
— copper, aluminum, steel —
which in his hands, are trans-
formed from the unlikely to the
logical as they are plaited and se-
cured with rivets and other fit-
tings into stiff geometric bundles.
Katherine Westphal offers a chal-
lenge to implicit hierarchies of
materials in her whimsical bas-
kets of crocheted synthetic raffia,
occasionally adorned with plas-
tic toys.
Materials also play an impor-
tant part in the work of Susie
Colquitt and Karyn Sisson. Susie
Colquitt explores the combina-
tions of cones within cones. Karyn
Sisson loves to build objects. She
recently began collecting 1950s
drinking straws and used them
to create pieces that look like
miniature houses with tiled roofs.
Others resemble marine life with
.spiney radiating skeletons; one
is actually constructed with old
Pepsi straws.
Unusual materials and tech-
niques are also used by Susan
Bohm and Lissa Hunter. Both,
for example, have found inter-
esting solutions to the problem of
using handmade paper.
Claudia Stafinski makes life-
size sculptures adding new lay-
ers of significance to the
iconography of the vessel by ref-
erence to the human body as a
container of memory.
Donna Look acknowledges
that her work is beginning to re-
flect figurative form as well. Some
of her rounded forms are sewn
from sheets of bark.
Linda Bills also strives for qui-
et elegance in her work.
Gallery hours are Tuesday
through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. at 202 E. Third St., Royal
Oak.
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