Through the Wire w/ sculptor Kristine Mays
Kristine Mays has been “breathing life into wire” for a long time. We’re excited to have her on the Noize because she can talk so eloquently about listening to your artistic intuition. Since she started using wire as her main medium she’s been collected and represented across the country. Kristine talks with us about her artistic growth, how she constructs her ethereal forms and we go in-depth on her latest body of work Rich Soil, which is on display at Hillwood Museum through January 9, 2022. It’s great to talk to amazing artists that also listen to the Noize! Listen, subscribe, and share!
Episode 124 topics include:
heavy gauge wire art
artistic intuition
imagining 3D space
growing up artistic
Rich Soil at Hillwood Museum in DC
standing out
representing your ancestors and history
Wire Sculpture from Rich Soil by Kristine Mays
Kristine Mays, a San Francisco native has been an exhibiting artist since 1993. She was the Grand Finale Winner in 2015 of the 5th Annual Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series National Competition. This competition not only provided an opportunity to exhibit her work at Art Basel Miami, but she had a solo exhibition at the Scope NYC Art Fair as well and was also afforded a chance to collaborate on a large-scale public mural. Her mural is on the side of the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco on Fillmore and Geary Streets. (It has large wire feathers placed among the portraits that adorn the walls, reflecting the fleeting existence of black jazz musicians in San Francisco.) In 2015 she also participated in the Hearts in San Francisco program, creating a large 400-pound heart for their annual public art installation. The heart spent a few weeks on display in Union Square before going to its final home upon purchase from AT&T.
See More: Kristine Mays Website + Kristine Mays IG @ristinemays
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