Artworks

Kevin and Valerie Pourier

Buffalo horn inlaid with coral, gold mother of pearl, lapis, shell, and resin · 2023

Channing Hansen

Alpaca, California Variegated Mutant (Hope), California Variegated Mutant (Myth), California Variegated Mutant (Pierson), hybrid California Variegated Mutant/Rambouillet/Cotswold/Border Leicester (Daisy), Lionhead (Beatrix & Derek), Romeldale (January), Romeldale (Renault), and Romney (Obiwan) fibers; Mawata silk and Tussah silk; holographic polymers, pearl dust, and photo-luminescent recycled polyester; banana cellulose, legume cellulose, pineapple fiber, rose cellulose, and Sequoioideae Redwood · 2019

Dianna Frid

Color lithograph with cut fabric and paper collaged elements (chine colle), metallic (aluminum) leaf and pearlescent powder from five aluminium plates on white wove paper · 2012

Dianna Frid

Color lithograph with aluminum leaf and pearlescent powder from nine aluminum plates on white wove paper · 2012

Matthew Barney

Evening gown, prosthetic plastic locker, leather punching pads, speculums, and salt water pearls · 1991

Sheila Hicks

Skeins of linen, wrapped with pearl cotton, couched with linen to handmade paper with imbedded hemp fibers; backed with linen, plain weave · 1990

Ivy Ross

Formica, oxidized silver, and mother of pearl · 1985

Arch Connelly

Acrylic, faux pearls, costume jewelry on papier-mâché · 1982

Arch Connelly

Acrylic and faux pearls on canvas · 1981

Grace C. Wagner

Silk, cotton, linen, wool, polyester, rayon, nylon, cellulose acetate, metal foil laminated in polyester film, and metallized polyester film wrapped rayon, plain, twill, satin, gauze and float weaves, some damask weave, some with complementary warps and/or wefts, some with secondary binding warps, some with supplementary patterning warps or wefts, some double cloth, with some supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet, some self-patterned by weave variations or warp or weft floats, some screen printed; oblique interlacing and cords of oblique wrapping; machine knitting; machine embroidering stitches; machine lace; pieced and appliquéd; embroidered with cotton, silk, and polyester in buttonhole, detached chain, fly, herringbone, stem and tent stitches; applied plastic stars and mother-of-pearl flowers; edged and backed with polyester, machine knitting; screen printed · 1980

Heidi Bucher

Embossing with linseed oil, graphite, and mother of pearl on paper · 1979

Heidi Bucher

Embossing with linseed oil, graphite, and mother of pearl on paper · 1979

Heidi Bucher

Embossing with linseed oil, graphite, and mother of pearl on paper · 1979

Heidi Bucher

Textile, latex, mother-of-pearl pigments · 1976

Claire Zeisler

Cut leather (suede), cotton, glazed ceramic, glass, coins, foil-wrapped stones, mother-of-pearl button, and clear plastic shells; appliquéd, pieced and over sewn with cotton needle lace; straight, button hole, stem and roman stitches; some printed · 1974

Otto Piene

Manipulated television set and plastic pearls · 1968

Remedios Varo

Oil and inlaid mother of pearl on board · 1956

Caroline Reboux

sewing on imitation pearl, satin, paste (glass) · 1951

Josef Hoffmann

Mother-of-pearl and ebony · 1946

Germaine Mingot

Silk and rayon, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterned by areas of ground weft floats and by reversing of faces; beaded with glass beads, metal beads, semi-precious stones and pearls; metal paillettes · 1930

Indus Kohistani people

Cotton, plain and twill weaves; pieced; embellished with strips of cotton, plain weave, some printed, some embroidered with cotton in cross stitches, satin, running stitches, and couching stitches; embellished with plastic and metal beads, plastic, metal and mother of pearl buttons, metal amulets, bells, buckles, and coins · 1925

Ducerf-Scavini

Linen, plain weave; embroidered in linen thread; with pearl buckles and bobbin lace rosettes; ribbons, silk, plain weave; leather · 1914

Lebolt and Company

Gold and pearls · 1912

Matthias William Hanck

Silver, amethyst, and pearl · 1911