About the Item

Fractured Sleeve

2022

Cast and fabricated pewter

In creating the Facture/Fracture series, Mimlitsch-Gray poured plaster slabs and
attempted to form them, knowing that the material would break; uncertainty guided
her design methods. She made moulds and pewter casts of the plaster exploration, capturing qualities of the sketch and action in metal.

4.6" x 3" x 2"

About the Artist

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray (b. 1962) explores craft as subject and object, engaging the field's history and methods to interpret utility and form. Her studio practice is at times speculative, theoretical, and in conversation with pedagogical concerns. She conceptualizes material conditions to construct fictions and portraits. Facture is explored as an idea and then constructed as an image; this research is reflected in the objects she generates.

Mimlitsch-Gray received her MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. An American Craft Council Fellow, The Metal Museum honored Mimlitsch-Gray as Master Metalsmith in 2014 and presented her solo exhibition, Staging Form. She was named Master of the Medium by the James Renwick Alliance. As professor she received two Chancellor's Awards from the State University of New York: Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and Excellence in Teaching. She has been awarded individual artist fellowships by the United States Artists Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mimlitsch-Gray's work is widely exhibited and included in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museums of Scotland, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley of New York.

mimlitschgray.com

@mimgray

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