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March 19, 2007

Enormous Dress Art Post


Leigh Pennebaker

Nancy sent me the link to the artist above, Leigh Pennebaker (warning, Flash-heavy site; easier to read about her here) who makes wire form dresses. I think this one is called "Bridget."

Sandra (and others) sent me a link to this marvelous artist, Susan Stockwell(very sensible site) who makes dresses from maps, like so:


Susan Stockwell

Theresa sent this, but it was forwarded to her without a good attribution; if anyone knows anything about the artist will you tell me, so I can link it here?

wood artist

And George (link is to his wife's new book, Momfidence) sent me a reference to the Zenith Gallery in DC, where Donna M. McCullough is showing her dress-themed work. This piece is called "Dancing With the Moon":

Donna M. McCullough

Got any other dress artists you'd like to recommend? Leave links in the comments ...

posted by Erin @ 9:40 AM  

22 Comments:

  • At Mar 19, 2007 10:39:00 AM, Anonymous twollin said…

    http://www.cmog.org/index.asp?pageId=802
    scroll down and see Karen Lamonte's glass dress. Amazing.

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 11:11:00 AM, Blogger S. said…

    Less pretty is the famous (in Canada anyway) "meat dress":
    http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 12:37:00 PM, Blogger Welmoed said…

    Six or so years ago I was in Toronto and got to see a marvelous exhibit of works by Isabelle de Borchgrave entitled "Paper a la Mode". It consisted of dresses and other garments made entirely of paper. It was just stunning. I have the exhibit catalog but haven't been able to find a link to the exhibit anywhere online. If you ever get the chance to see it, GO!!

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 12:39:00 PM, Blogger Welmoed said…

    Aha! Found it after all.

    http://www.isabelledeborchgrave.com/en/projects_4.cfm

    You'd never believe it was paper.

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 2:36:00 PM, Anonymous Monique in TX said…

    A book of fairy fashion, with everything made from flowers, leaves, feathers, etc...

    http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780763632625&itm=9

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 2:55:00 PM, Anonymous ambika said…

    The map dress is amazing. Better than the condom dresses by far ;)

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 5:00:00 PM, Blogger Omppu said…

    This is a picture of a dress made from candypaper by a Finnish artist Virpi Vesanen-Laukkanen:

    http://www.gov.karelia.ru/gov/Photos/photo_e.html?id=5997

    More info here:
    http://www.gov.karelia.ru/News/2006/02/0201_06_e.html

    Love your page!

    Omppu

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 5:45:00 PM, Anonymous nicole dextras said…

    Hi:
    I am an aritst and i have a thing about dresses. I make some out of leaves and flowers in the summer and i also freeze real garments in the winter and photograph them. You can view my work at: http://www.nicoledextras.com/ephemeralart/index.html and new work i did this winter in Toronto at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndextras/

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 5:56:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Longtime reader de-lurking to say that the wooden clothing is by the amazingly talented Livio De Marchi:

    http://www.liviodemarchi.com/ukmain3.htm

    Take a look at his full gallery--it's worth it.

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 6:27:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    For amazing textile objects carved in wood (I confess, no dresses) see:

    http://www.gofraser.com/index9.htm

    His carved quilts in particular (my other textile-based obsession) are amazing: colored, and carved to include each fold of the fabric and each little quilting stitch.

    Coats, jackets, hats and other objects rendered in carved wood and stained the appropriate colors.

    CMC

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 6:47:00 PM, Blogger Marie said…

    Julia Morison has an exhibit at the Dunedin public art gallery, which is probably of no use to almost anyone who reads this.
    http://dunedin.art.museum/exhibitions.asp
    It involves dresses, dress forms and artwork inspired by historical patterns and such. She has a webpage, but it didn't work for me, so I'm unsure about whether any of her work is web-viewable.
    http://www.juliamorison.co.nz/

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 8:31:00 PM, Anonymous S.D.Jackson said…

    Cat Chow (yes, that is her actual name) is an amazing artist who uses non-traditional media to make dresses. You may have seen her zipper dress, which is a form fitting dress made of one long zipper that has to be unzipped to be worn. Worth checking out for stitchers and artists alike.
    This site is also flash, but I'm sure an image search for "cat chow artist" will bring up her stuff:
    http://www.cat-chow.com/

     

  • At Mar 19, 2007 11:29:00 PM, Anonymous fox drink water said…

    Jana Sterbak does some great work. If you go to http://www.janasterbak.com/images.html and click on Remote Control in the pulldown menu you will get to a fabulous piece based on a crinoline. Lovely stuff.

     

  • At Mar 20, 2007 8:29:00 AM, Anonymous Theresa said…

    Nicole,
    I checked out some of your work. Incredible. I put youre page in my favorites.

     

  • At Mar 20, 2007 11:40:00 AM, Blogger S. said…

    If you google "Dress Signal" you can see some of the work in an exhibition from 2003 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.

     

  • At Mar 20, 2007 1:57:00 PM, Blogger Meredith said…

    My boyfriend's grandfather creates Victorian and Edwardian dresses for doll forms. They are truly amazing and intricate, and I wish there were more/better photos up on his site.

    There's a few more photos of his bridal pieces for the dolls here [PDF].

     

  • At Mar 21, 2007 2:00:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I like Jodi Green (www.jodigreen.ca).
    /Monika

     

  • At Mar 21, 2007 2:56:00 AM, Anonymous Gaby said…

    Anna Eggert is an Australian artist who makes dress sculptures from wire mesh pounded with river stones. Her work can be seen here:
    http://www.beavergalleries.com.au/

    In the flesh (wire?) it has a really interesting effect - it looks soft and flowing until you get very close - and then you realise that the fabric is quite harsh metal.

     

  • At Mar 21, 2007 1:34:00 PM, Blogger Erin Elizabeth said…

    I read this entry, then purely by accident walked past the Zenith Gallery. There were a few pretty dresses in the window made from food wrappers- including a cute apron made of shortbread cookie labels... The gallery is downtown, between the Navy Memorial and Chinatown metro stations.

     

  • At Mar 22, 2007 2:56:00 PM, Blogger Kate said…

    Kate Kretz' psychological clothing (which will be on display at the Belger Art Center in Kansas City, MO, this summer)
    http://www.katekretz.com/psych.html
    -Kate

     

  • At Mar 23, 2007 6:34:00 PM, Anonymous Nicole said…

    thank you welmoed for the link to the paper dresses show. i also saw this exhibit when it was in toronto and it was fantastic. i really appreciated that the artists realized that their technique with paper was so convincing that people would feel compelled to touch, which is a no-no of course, so they had a table set up with samples the public could actually handle. i was in 7th heaven!

     

  • At Mar 25, 2007 5:27:00 PM, Blogger Jezebella said…

    Lesley Dill uses the dress form often. Here's one of my favorites: http://www.newpaltz.edu/artsnews/news.cfm?id=2755

    But also do a Google Image Search on "Lesley Dill dress" and you'll find her Poem Dress and other works.

    Another artist who has recently making dresses, out of ceramic elements, is Gulf Coast artist Lee Renninger. She hasn't posted the new work on her website, but you can see a sample on my blog:
    http://yoredux.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html
    if you scroll down to the 1/22/07 post.

     

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