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Clare Graham & MorYork: The Answer is Yes
LOS ANGELES -- The Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) presents the first solo museum exhibition of acclaimed Los Angeles craft artist Clare Graham. Clare Graham & MorYork: The Answer is Yes highlights nearly 40 years of Graham鈥檚 obsessive collecting habits integrated into a rich process of art production. The exhibition simulates Graham鈥檚 tremendous 7,000 square foot studio and gallery MorYork, itself a living installation that represents the density of Graham鈥檚 collection and artworks. The exhibition has been curated by Brooks Hudson Thomas and will be on view from September 14, 2014through January 4, 2015. Graham鈥檚 compulsion to collect and categorize wayside materials into large-scale sculptural objects stems from his frugal childhood.
The economics of the small Canadian town where he was raised necessitated reuse and dovetailed with Graham鈥檚 innate desire to explore and chronicle the world of objects. Channeled by his study of sculpture at California State University Long Beach, Graham鈥檚 practice has steered his fervent accumulation of 鈥渟tuff鈥� towards the construction of artworks made from singular materials. By Graham鈥檚 own estimation, he has recycled close to 4 million buttons into his sculptures. Graham鈥檚 refined touch has transformed staggering quantities of dominoes into cabinet doors, soda-cans and their pop-tops into furniture, Scrabble tiles and puzzle-pieces into architectural forms, and buttons into organic sea-form chandeliers. With a fantastical design sensibility that resulted in a long and storied career as Disneyland鈥檚 Senior Art Director, Graham is expert in creating otherworldly environments, which he demonstrates at the Craft & Folk Art Museum.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) presents the first solo museum exhibition of acclaimed Los Angeles craft artist Clare Graham. Clare Graham & MorYork: The Answer is Yes highlights nearly 40 years of Graham鈥檚 obsessive collecting habits integrated into a rich process of art production. The exhibition simulates Graham鈥檚 tremendous 7,000 square foot studio and gallery MorYork, itself a living installation that represents the density of Graham鈥檚 collection and artworks. The exhibition has been curated by Brooks Hudson Thomas and will be on view from September 14, 2014through January 4, 2015. Graham鈥檚 compulsion to collect and categorize wayside materials into large-scale sculptural objects stems from his frugal childhood.
The economics of the small Canadian town where he was raised necessitated reuse and dovetailed with Graham鈥檚 innate desire to explore and chronicle the world of objects. Channeled by his study of sculpture at California State University Long Beach, Graham鈥檚 practice has steered his fervent accumulation of 鈥渟tuff鈥� towards the construction of artworks made from singular materials. By Graham鈥檚 own estimation, he has recycled close to 4 million buttons into his sculptures. Graham鈥檚 refined touch has transformed staggering quantities of dominoes into cabinet doors, soda-cans and their pop-tops into furniture, Scrabble tiles and puzzle-pieces into architectural forms, and buttons into organic sea-form chandeliers. With a fantastical design sensibility that resulted in a long and storied career as Disneyland鈥檚 Senior Art Director, Graham is expert in creating otherworldly environments, which he demonstrates at the Craft & Folk Art Museum.
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