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[circles, rectanges and gridded window shapes create depth]
The artwork is layered with many concentric circles and gridded window images from handmade papers arranged at angles to give illusion of depth. The colors are muted blues and browns with some rusty pinks.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[dyed silk yardage]
Dyed silk yardage in dark blues with horizontal yellow and blue wave patterns are broken with intervals of vertical lines.
Date:
1991~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[dyed silk yardage]
Silk yardage dyed in vertical linear patterns of oranges, greens, reds, and browns spotted with circular shapes resembling eyes or knots in wood.
Date:
1991~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[dark blue silk yardage]
The yardage of dyed silk includes vertical blue and brown stripes with circular shapes that resemble eyes or wood knots covering the yardage.
Date:
1991~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[ribbons floating from window across the river to land]
A light colored window frame shape, dark inside, on the left side of the work has a pink ribbon shape floating out of it and into the mountainous landscape and water.
Date:
1988~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[12 panel handmade paper and silk artwork]
The artwork consists of twelve panels in varying hues of pinks, blues, browns with some angular textured lines resembling furrows and some blue lines resembling water run through and across the panels.
Date:
1990~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[4-panel piece, handmade paper on silk]
The artwork consists of four panels each turned on point. A grid ladder pattern turned in various directions appears in each panel. The colors are warm reddish browns and light blues. Other rectangular and triangular outlined shapes appear scattered across the panels.
Date:
1981~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[full moon in front of grids]
The majority of the artwork consists of a large moon shape in a gradation from white to blue. This moon is situated in front of a brown horizontal grid pattern and from the moon shape hang cotton tapes.
Date:
1987~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[handmade paper on silk artwork]
This detail view of the artwork shows the texture of the handmade paper in strips and geometric shapes. The background silk consists of images of cloud forms and geometric structural type lines that echo the handmade paper shapes.
Date:
1986~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
St. Matthew
This acrylic painting on paper consists of small geometric shapes spread across the surface of ninety-degree turned and columnar patterns. St. Matthew is depicted at the lower right edge in an outline. An upside down silhouette shape of a dog is included in the upper left portion of the painting.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Falsetta, Vincent
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[concentric circle sphere with floating papers]
This almost square artwork begins with a light brown background and in the center a large pale blue sphere of concentric light blue circles and on the interior of the open sphere are light brown concentric circles and out of the ball shape seem to fly several sheets of paper.
Date:
1977
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[room divider]
The vertical hanging room divider consists of strips of color that start and stop creating geometric shapes. The colors are both warm and cool, pinks and blues.
Date:
1979
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[room divider]
The room divider is of various muted ranges of reds, purples with some blues and greens. On the left side is a red wave form reaching into the distance or top edge of the room divider.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Canal
Water rushing into or out of this gradated in light brown tunnel creates a deep recession into space.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Canyon
The almost square cotton velvet artwork consists of ribbon like shapes on edge receding into the distance creating a canyon like imagery. The colors are gradated in browns, purples and blues.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
My Dream
The vertical orientation with the muted and pale purples and blues of this piece create in ribbon like forms a simultaneous recession and progression of space.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Study of Forms and Color
The strong colors and vertical orientation with definite geometric shapes and stripes contribute to the graphic design. Blue and white stripes on the right hand side with a gradated purple sphere on the left and orange sphere at the top right are linked with some angled green lines.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Blue Tide
This queen sized bedspread, screen printed on cotton velvet, was created while Spear studied at Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The bedspread gradates from purples to blues with long wave shapes in a pale yellow gold color.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sound Wave Series No. 37
Square piece of paper divided into five vertical columns with horizontal lines and dots and dashes in light beige on toned paper.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Falsetta, Vincent
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Series
Acrylic paint on paper depicting two large squares, one turned forty-five degrees and both filled with small lines, dots, and dashes creating many more small grids. Light blues and purples dominate.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Falsetta, Vincent
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Storm, NYC Rooftop
Long multi-colored pieces are arranged on a rooftop in an urban setting. The pieces are arranged both in organic lines as well as straight lines filling the rooftop area. Some pieces partially move above the base and some appear suspended in space.
Date:
1981
Creator:
Falsetta, Vincent
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Space Behind the Dark Wall
The dark ground of the piece also contains square shapes that create great depth and floating on the surface appear trapezoidal pink shapes. The blue ground contains square that gradate from very dark to somewhat lighter and pink in tone. The pink shapes on the surface, floating parallel to the ground, gradate from a lighter pink to darker pink.
Date:
1982~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wind
The work depicts a landscape sort of space with a striated mountainous shape on the left side of the work and at the bottom of the mountain are some white ripples of water. On the right side of the work are two white shapes, resembling the sheets of floating paper, may depict snow covered mountains. Floating down through the sky are several white shapes that appear to be sheets of paper. Some very think ribbons float horizontally through the space.
Date:
1982~
Creator:
Spear, Shigeko
System:
The UNT Digital Library