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Everything Is Alive

Oka Donerâ€™s life work shines a light on the continuing importance of art and transformative power or our cosmic and enchanting natural world.

Michele Oka Doner is one of todayâ€™s foremost artists. Her prodigious career spans five decades and numerous artistic media, from sculpture and works on paper, furniture and jewelry. The common thread running through Oka Donerâ€™s oeuvre is her lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world from which she derives her formal vocabulary.

InÂ Everything is Alive,Â this vocabulary hones in on magic, enchantment, and transformation as one is led through the artistic processes behind some of Oka Donerâ€™s prominent art installations. FromÂ Micco,Â the monumental concrete arch suffused with native greenery of the Everglades to Oka Donerâ€™s haunting ceramicÂ SoulCatchersÂ and figurative sculptures born from clay at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactury in Munich, to Miami International Airport where Oka Donerâ€™sÂ SargassumÂ soars overhead and herÂ A Walk onÂ the BeachÂ lies at the feet of millions of travelers who pass through each year.

Four essayists, Judith Thurman, Joseph Giovannini, Cynthia Nadelman, and Gregory Volk, serve as guides through Oka Donerâ€™s evolution as an artist and creation of these installations, which are brought to life on the page through stunning photographs, original process sketches and inspirations.Â Everything is AliveÂ offers just a glimpse into the full breadth of Oka Donerâ€™s works, but most importantly, it shines a light on the continuing importance of permanent installations of art and the worldview that there is beauty to be found in all living things.
Country USA
Manufacturer Regan Arts.
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-09-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Regan Arts.
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-09-12
Format	Kindle eBook