Hide Me
Hide Me
Norma Minkowitz
1995
Materials
Cotton fiber, shellac, paint, resin, and tree branch
Size
30 1/2 x 15 x 9 inches
Racine Art Museum, The Cotsen Contemporary American Basket Collection
About the artwork.
Sculptor and fiber artist Norma Minkowitz uses crochet to create interlaced sculptures which are then stiffened into hard mesh-like structures. Her work often makes statements about enclosures and entrapment. Minkowitz’s vessels typically take the form of human bodies, as seen in Hide Me which resembles a human torso, but also incorporate non-human elements such as geometric shapes or found twigs and branches.