Carol Eckert: Mythologies

January 14, 2017 – February 25, 2017


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CAROL ECKERT
Totality of Five

cotton, linen, wire


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Consider the Ravens

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The Year of Yellow Rain

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Palampore for a New Century

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Valley of the Quest

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    CAROL ECKERT
    Totality of Five

    cotton, linen, wire

    30 x 64 x 6”

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    Consider the Ravens

    cotton, linen, wire

    58 x 68 x 3.5”

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    CAROL ECKERT
    The Year of Yellow Rain

    cotton, linen, wire

    24 x 38 x 4”

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    Palampore for a New Century

    cotton, linen, wire

    36 x 27 x 2”

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    CAROL ECKERT
    Valley of the Quest

    cotton, linen, wire

    43 x 62 x 3.5”

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CAROL ECKERT
Totality of Five

cotton, linen, wire


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CAROL ECKERT
Consider the Ravens

cotton, linen, wire


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CAROL ECKERT
The Year of Yellow Rain

cotton, linen, wire


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CAROL ECKERT
Palampore for a New Century

cotton, linen, wire


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CAROL ECKERT
Valley of the Quest

cotton, linen, wire


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We request the pleasure of your company to view the work

Saturday, January 14 from 10 am to 5 pm at
Mobilia Gallery

358 Huron Avenue
Cambridge, MA
02138

RSVP mobiliaart@verizon.net or 617-876-2109

Picasso and Pie will be served. We invite you to read the full story that inspired Picasso and Pie here.

STATEMENT

The coiled fiber process I use to create my pieces is as old as the stories they tell. Coiling is an ancient technique, intertwined with humans’ enduring connection to nature — its earliest known use was the construction of vessels from gathered plant materials.

Each piece begins with symbols and stories — creation stories, legends of great floods, tales of journeys and quests, parables of good and evil. Mythology and art have been interwoven for as long as there have been humans on earth, and my work often explores this connection through animal symbolism.

I draw each piece and choose thread colors before I begin construction. Then I work directly from the drawing, which includes color numbers for reference
My pieces are often complex, but the technique is simple, requiring only a threaded needle. I work with various gauges of coated wire and with cotton and linen threads. The forms are built up slowly, stitch by stitch and row by row. The process is coiling, a basketry technique so ancient that no one is exactly certain when it first began. Though it is traditionally used to make vessels, I construct a myriad of coiled forms, including staffs, shrines, wall pieces and books.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

  • Ahuja Medical Center/University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH
  • Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
  • Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  • Denver Art Museum, CO
  • de Young Museum/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
  • Erie Art Museum, PA
  • Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
  • Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
  • Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  • Szombatheli Keptar, Szombathely, Hungary
  • US Embassy, Mbabane, Swaziland, Art in Embassies, US Department of State

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