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Lena McGrath Welker

Lena McGrath Welker

"Navigation [sea change]"
2007
Porcelain, cobalt carbonate oxide, iron gall ink, and other drawing inks on underneath, palladium leaf and silver leaf on surfaces, stainless steel stands.


Lena McGrath Welker

Lena McGrath Welker

"Navigation [sea change]" detail
2007
Porcelain, cobalt carbonate oxide painting on underneath, palladium leaf on surface. stainless steel stand. One of 300 sculptures, 221 of which were shown at the Alexander Gallery.


Lena McGrath Welker

Lena McGrath Welker

"Navigation [text] [cautionary tales] [caesura]"
installation view, North Dakota Museum of Art
2002-2004
[text] 144 stitched, pierced, and blind debossed books on 12 cast plaster tablets and stainless steel stands.
[cautionary tales] 12 books, stitched, letterpress and blind debossed printed, in 12 plexi cases. 12 stainless steel plates with text acid
etched; six are enamel filled.
[caesura] 12 drawings and 7 vellum drawings on stainless steel frames. Arches and kozo paper, pigment, graphite, ink vellum, silk mawata.


Lena McGrath Welker

Lena McGrath Welker

"Navigation [caesura]" detail
2004
Arches paper, powedered graphite, pigment, kozo, white ink. stainless steel frame with vellum and silk mawata. 3 of 12 drawings and 7 vellum drawings on steel frames.