French Hammer (Describing Labor) circular She explores ideas of pattern

She explores ideas of pattern

I rely upon an internal exchange of questions and responses based on intuition and experience

she works with traditional craftsmen–tapping into their age-old techniques and knowledge–and introduces them to new materials and fabrication processes

I am creating shape and blurring the lines of the interior and exterior of vessels

French Hammer (Describing Labor) circular She explores ideas of patternArtist: Esther Shalev Gerz French Hammer (Describing Labor), 2012 Glass 13" x 4. 75" x 1. 75" Describing Labor draws on artist Esther Shalev Gerzs research into depictions of the worker from the late nineteenth through the mid twentieth century. Through video, audio, photography and a selection of historic artworks from the Wolfsonian FIU and the Margulies collections, Describing Labor invites the present to relate to the now rarely seen figure of