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Frida's Chair

by Deborah Rael-Buckley

web # 6718

Sculpture

Ceramic, Oxides and Glazes

44"h x 14"w x 16"d

Frida’s Chair is designed to relate to certain details of the artists life. I began this series of artist chairs to represent the lives of women artists with whom my work has stylistic, referential, imagistic resonances. The chair form has human qualities; leg, back, arm, seat, etcetera, so that the person may be referred to symbolically. Frida’s Chair is surrounded with several important events and images from her life. The general form of the chair is made form locks of “hair,” which also recalls the painting she made of herself cutting her hair of when Diego had an affair with her sister.