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Michelle Stuart BIOGRAPHY
Born 1933 Los Angeles. Known for: Painting.
A resident of SoHo in New York City during the winter and Long Island in the summer, she creates sculpture that is delicate seed drawings or seed arrangements from objects she finds in nature. Stuart... Read full biography
A resident of SoHo in New York City during the winter and Long Island in the summer, she creates sculpture that is delicate seed drawings or seed arrangements from objects she finds in nature. Stuart believes that seeds reflect the cycles of life and death. She is essentially self taught and has... Read full biography
A resident of SoHo in New York City during the winter and Long Island in the summer, she creates sculpture that is delicate seed drawings or seed arrangements from objects she finds in nature. Stuart believes that seeds reflect the cycles of life and death. She is essentially self taught and has worked in everything from earth pieces to monumental pieces of paper sculpture. In 1979, she arranged 3200 boulders for her earthwork "Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns, and in the 1980s made encaustic... Read full biography
A resident of SoHo in New York City during the winter and Long Island in the summer, she creates sculpture that is delicate seed drawings or seed arrangements from objects she finds in nature. Stuart believes that seeds reflect the cycles of life and death. She is essentially self taught and has worked in everything from earth pieces to monumental pieces of paper sculpture. In 1979, she arranged 3200 boulders for her earthwork "Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns, and in the 1980s made encaustic grids. She was raised as an only child in Los Angeles by a Swiss mother and an Australian father, who often drove her into the desert for family outings. At age 17, she went to Mexico by herself and earned an apprenticeship painting murals with Diego... Read full biography
A resident of SoHo in New York City during the winter and Long Island in the summer, she creates sculpture that is delicate seed drawings or seed arrangements from objects she finds in nature. Stuart believes that seeds reflect the cycles of life and death. She is essentially self taught and has worked in everything from earth pieces to monumental pieces of paper sculpture. In 1979, she arranged 3200 boulders for her earthwork "Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns, and in the 1980s made encaustic grids. She was raised as an only child in Los Angeles by a Swiss mother and an Australian father, who often drove her into the desert for family outings. At age 17, she went to Mexico by herself and earned an apprenticeship painting murals with Diego Rivera. Committed to her garden orientation, she begins each day in the summer working outside at her country house.... Read full biography
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A resident of SoHo in New York City during the winter and Long Island in the summer, she creates sculpture that is delicate seed drawings or seed arrangements from objects she finds in nature. Stuart believes that seeds reflect the cycles of life and death.
She is essentially self taught and has worked in everything from earth pieces to monumental pieces of paper sculpture. In 1979, she arranged 3200 boulders for her earthwork "Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns, and in the 1980s made encaustic grids.
She was raised as an only child in Los Angeles by a Swiss mother and an Australian father, who often drove her into the desert for family outings. At age 17, she went to Mexico by herself and earned an apprenticeship painting mural...But wait, there's more...
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