$4 Weaving (heads together), 2003
Woven Dollars
14.5” x 11.5”
LOVE Dollar Squared, 2001
Woven Dollars
10.75” x 10.75”
Eye Zipper, 2000
Photographs and thread
16” x 2”
Oriane Stender believes that our culture has become so materialistic, so bottomline-oriented, and in such an all-consuming way that everything is about money. These artworks metaphorically speak of the colonization of our minds, outerspace and the oceans.
These highly detailed, labor-intensive hand-sewn quilts continue Stender's work with dollars and other cultural currency. Her artistic practice combines the traditional techniques of "women's work", including sewing, weaving and quilting, with current cultural theories of appropriation and postmodernism.
Stender has exhibited across the US and in Europe, and has been included in several traveling museum shows. The artist is the recipient of grants and residencies from the California Arts Council; Artadia, The Fund for Art and Dialogue, Millay Colony for the Art and the Gallatin School at New York University. A native of San Francisco, she currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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