Michelle Yi Martin
LOT 21
Bell, 2024
Monofilament, wool, silk, copper
52 x 24 x 24 inches
Courtesy the artist
Suggested retail value: $12,000
Starting bid: $7,500
About the Artwork
Michelle Yi Martin is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in the progressive traditions of the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. Her work operates at the intersection of history, human engagement, craft, experimentation, and fine art. Yi Martin’s sculpture Bell was hand-woven on a floor loom using traditional and nontraditional fibers and yarns. Her process seeks to understand the interaction of materials as a work forms with the help of gravity and time.
Bell symbolizes thresholds, activating the interplay of more visible materials and colors in the weft with the transparent monofilament warp to create a permeable yet articulated solid; space is flexibly defined and enclosed; boundaries exist, yet the work remains open to the world around it. Yi Martin has completed residencies at the Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós; the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT; and the Space Program in San Francisco. She has exhibited widely, including at Ovartaci Museum, Denmark; Grove Collective, London; Copenhagen Contemporary Museum; Nationale, Portland, OR; Round Weather, Oakland; 120710 Gallery, Berkeley; and in San Francisco at Artists’ Television Access, Municipal Bonds, Minnesota Street Projects, Arion Press, and the Museum of Craft and Design, among others. Yi Martin has been awarded a commission for a permanent installation at San Francisco’s newly developed Pier 70.
HOW TO BID:
Bidding is available from May 18-June 5.
1) Text 'READY TO BID' or call 628-237-8195.
OR
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