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Fresno Art Museum's Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist 2018
Kay Sekimachi (b. 1926) is a fiber artist and weaver based in Berkeley, California. She was the recipient of the Fresno Art Museum’s Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist Award for 2018. Her retrospective, solo exhibition described her years of art-making, beginning in the 1940s up to the present day. Curated by Fresno Art Museum staff Michele Ellis Pracy and Kristina Hornback in 2017, the selected works define the breadth of Sekimachi’s oeuvre and the command she has of her fiber medium.
Sekimachi is known as a “weaver’s weaver." She uses the loom to construct three-dimensional sculptural pieces. She attended the California College of the Arts, where she studied with Trude Guermonprez, and at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, where she studied with Jack Lenor Larsen.
Her work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is recognized as a pioneer in the resurrection of fiber and weaving as a legitimate means of artistic expression.
Published by the Fresno Art Museum 2018
Essay by Mija Riedel and photography by M. Lee Fatherree
88 pages, full color soft cover
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