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WAITING #2
1998
Newspaper on hemp cord
74" x 68"
$9500

WAITING #2, Detail

BLACK/WHITE MALE
1997
12" x 20" X 6"
mixed media
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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Gugger Petter is a Danish artist with an International career. She studied at Den
Frie og Merkantile Kunstskole in Copenhagen, and at the Academy of Fine Art in
Rome. She then moved to an extended residence in Mexico City where she created
large textile wall pieces for corporate venues and private collectors. In Belgium she
created work for museum exhibitions, and after arriving in California in 1986, she
started working with newspaper and three-dimensional forms.
Gugger's work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums both in Europe
and in America. Permanent collections include: The White House in Washington,
D.C.; Royal Danish Embassy in Mexico; Stanford Medical Center, CA.; El Camino
Hospital in Mountain View, CA.; and Young & Rubicam in San Francisco, CA. Gugger
also has an extensive list of private collectors, and publications of her artwork include
Fiberart and American Craft Magazines.
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Recent And Future Shows
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2000
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Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
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2001
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Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska
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2000
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Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
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2000
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The International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA
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2000
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Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2001
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Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. (solo show)
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ARTIST STATEMENT
For the past fourteen years I have worked with newspaper as my main
medium-creating both two and three-dimensional works with this material. My series of
large weavings are created from rolled newspaper tubes which are then woven on
hemp cord. The weavings are based on an oversized representational image-an
observation of daily life, and newspaper pages are carefully selected in order to
depict my simple, graphic, and storytelling expression.
I am fascinated by newspaper as a material, and love the information that is
packed into a newspaper because it is the diary of our lives.
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