Barbara Shapiro
Seven Urns for Covid, 2021
Cane, Found lids. Various sizes, Installation 4' x 10" x 10"
As the Pandemic dragged on I felt compelled to create a body of work honoring the memory of all the hundreds of thousands of people we lost. Each one is different as were each of them. My urns are open to the air because Covid is airborne, but so too I think is hope.
Barbara Shapiro
Faulty Towers: Night and Day, 2020
Recycled Artist Prints 22" H X 10" x 10" each Tower
The title refers to that funny British comedy show from years ago, and the inspiration was the Millennium Tower in San Francisco which has sunk, some 16 inches on its foundation. The plaited twisted cubes seemed the perfect building blocks for a structurally unsound building or world. There is so much that is faulty these days, there could be many ways to interpret this title.
Barbara Shapiro
Tikkun Olam: Repair the World, 2020
Sedori cane, tea bag papers dyed in indigo, sumi and persimmon, raw kozo paper 23 carat gold leaf 14 x 14 x 14 "
Barbara Shapiro
Troubled Waters, 2019
Sedori Cane, paper and cloth dyed in indigo, sumi and persimmon 13 x 13 x 13"
Barbara Shapiro
What Knot: Top Knot, 2018
Indigo dyed Sedori (scraped) cane, Japanese Flower Knot plaiting 7 x 7 x 4.5"
Barbara Shapiro
Strength in Diversity, 2019
Plaited Japanese sedori (scraped and dyed) cane in hexagonal technique with handwoven bands of various bast fibers and paper (gampi, hemp, linden, straw, indigo dyed ramie, nettle, mulberry, kudzu, pique, coconut). 12 x 12 x 12"
Barbara Shapiro
Unwrapping Memory, 2016
Cane dyed in onion, persimmon, sumi and indigo, and Persimmon dyed Japanese paper 35 L x 6.5 H x 6.5 D"
Barbara Shapiro
Four Square, 2011
Handwoven pima cotton with linen weft, indigo dye, mounted on stretched linen on wood 15.5 w x 19.25 H"
Barbara Shapiro
Kami Vessel, 2016
Various Japanese old printed and calligraphy papers, indigo dyed paper, cloth, stiff silk thread, on wired paper rush 4.25 x 9 x 9"
