Maiko
2011
Medium/TechniqueCast glass
DimensionsOverall: 129.5 x 85.1 x 59.7 cm (51 x 33 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.)
Weight: 700 lb. (317.52 kg)
Weight: 700 lb. (317.52 kg)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund and funds donated by Myles J. Slosberg and Diane Krane, Susan B. Kaplan in honor of Carol and Davis Noble for their contributions to the development of the MFAs Contemporary Art program, Ronald and Anita Wornick, Lorraine D. Bressler, Michael and Karen Rotenberg, and Davis and Carol Noble
Accession number2013.634
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
LaMonte’s sculptures depict garments absent of an inhabitant, becoming meditations on the way clothing can shape and show identity. During a seven-month fellowship in Kyoto in 2007, LaMonte studied the meanings embodied by the kimono, and Maiko is titled after the young apprentice geishas. Cast in clear glass, this kimono seems at once weighty and ephemeral, speaking both to the depth of legacy into which each maiko enters as well as the transience of the actions which she performs as a geisha.
ProvenanceBetween 2011 and 2013, consigned by the artist to Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA; 2013, sold by Imago Galleries to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 26, 2013)
Copyright© Karen LaMonte 2010Karen Karnes
