The You and the I
The piece comprises a dangling array of glass rods covered with coarse sisal crochet that oozes expandable foam. This visceral environment feels like a passage inside an organism. Painted in red, orange, umber, and purple, these foam and fiber elements suggest organic forms and interior body structures.
(Excerpt from writing by Sherée Lutz for KC STUDIO, Exhibition at Kansas City Artist Coalition)
http://kcstudio.org/micaela-de-vivero-kansas-city-artists-coalition/
“The You and the I,” dyed sisal, acrylic painted polyurethane and glass rods, max. height: 15’ / 5m, 2015
The You and the I
In The You and the I, Micaela de Vivero returns to crocheted dyed sisal forms that are hung from the ceiling and given solid form with acrylic-painted polyurethane extruding through the gaps in the sisal forms. These forms are like living stalactites that drip from the ceiling and either almost make contact with the floor or actually reach the floor; they are rendered in bright earth colors such as red, orange, brown, and black. Their legs or arms or skinny bodies are covered with bulbous forms that in several cases end in heavy masses on the ground, like the organic growth of new life or the pernicious growth of rusting tumors among industrial wreckage. The forms strongly evoke the process of becoming, of contingency, of not being one thing or another. They pay homage to the process work of Lynda Benglis and her extruded forms of the early 1970s as well as to Eva Hesse’s last sculpture of ephemeral looking fiberglass “legs” suspended from the ceiling.
(Excerpt from writing by Joy Sperling for exhibition at Olin Art Gallery, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA, USA)