Karen Lamonte

Karen LaMonte has been exploring beauty, identity, gender and the natural world since 1990 through glass, ceramic, paper, bronze, iron and marble, sculpture and printmaking.

Now based in Prague, in 2007 the American artist travelled to Japan where she studied the design, symbolism, construction and significance of kimono, turning those studies into ceramic, cast glass, rusted iron, and bronze sculptures, using the biometric data of Japanese women as models. You can see the project here.

In another project, LaMonte created small-scale works in reference to Théâtre de la Mode, the postwar celebration of hope that presented haute couture to Paris on one-third life-size models in realistically created day-to-day theatre sets.

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