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Round
Silk and dyes
26 x 50 x 2 inches
Courtesy of Abattoir Gallery
Estimated Retail Value: $10,000
Starting Bid: $6,000
Hildur Jónsson makes woven paintings with dyed silk thread, each based on the landscape of her native Iceland. Her paintings, which span small, framed works to mural-size wall hangings, stem from acute observation and recording of Iceland’s natural phenomena across all seasons. After photographing unique environmental attributes like geysers, waterfalls, hot springs, and active volcanoes, she extracts and abstracts those primal shapes. Painting the warp and weft fibers separately, Jónsson then weaves them together to create a humming, vibratory impression of nature.
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Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson
Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson (b. 1963, Reykjavík, Iceland; lives and works between Cleveland, OH and Reykjavík, Iceland) received her BFA (1991) and MFA (1995) from Kent State University and also studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (Charlotte, NC); Tibor de Nagy Gallery (New York, NY); Abattoir Gallery (Cleveland, OH); Frederic R. Weisman Museum of Art (Malibu, CA); Hafnarborg (Hafnarfjörður, Iceland); and Reykjavík Art Museum (Reykjavík, Iceland), among others. moCa did a solo show of her work in 2006. Her work has also been presented in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA); Uppsala konstmuseum (Uppsala, Sweden); Scandinavian House (New York, NY); and the Central Museum of Textiles (Łódź, Poland). Jónsson’s work is included in numerous public and private collections and has been discussed in publications including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The New Yorker, and NewCity Art.
