Wind

Two striated architectural type shapes, one beige-orange, one gray-green, consisting of two sides opening toward the right have moving between them three-striped ribbons. The work is horizontally oriented.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Geometric Landscape

The work depicts striped rectangles, circles and arched shapes. Adjacent, behind and running through the depicted space are light colored shapes that resemble a spilled liquid.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Canyon No. 2

The work depicts space in a canyon like fashion. Irregular shapes run through the work and from the edges are dropped perpendicularly gradated lines that create form and space. The illusion of space is also created by the gradations from white to pink to purple.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Clouds That Sail Across the Sea

The artwork depicts some cloud like or wave like shapes in the foreground floating into the distance. The ground is depicted in a series of gradated stripes of dark purples and blues, also receding into the distance.
Date: 1981~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sunset View from My Window

The horizontally oriented work of art consists of three vertical panels. Each panel depicts space through a series of gradated horizontally running lines and stripes. Moving from the foreground to the background are white ribbon shapes.
Date: 1981~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Whereabouts of Clouds

The horizontally oriented artwork depicts a series of ribbon like forms moving from the foreground and lower edge of the work into the distance and the top edge of the work. The sky is a light pink color and the ribbon forms gradate from dark to light blue-greens.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rolling Hills

The artwork consists of four vertical panels that are hung at different heights. Each panel depicts a series of gradated horizontal lines that are overlaid with ribbon like shapes that seem to depict hills or mountains. The horizontal stripes are browns and pinkish grays while the ribbons are pink.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Silk Panel IV

The yardage consists of light and dark horizontal cloud like forms intersecting with each other and occasionally overlapped with floating rectangular shapes.
Date: 1983~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Silk Panel III

The fabric yardage consists of a dark ground with some horizontal pink stripes and running vertically the length of the yardage are some ribbon shapes in purple, pink, brown and blue.
Date: 1983~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Silk Panel I

The vertically running piece consists of a predominately dark ground with some vertical stripes in lighter colors and shades. Moving inward from the lower two corners are some mountainous shapes that overlap on the lower edge and meet again in the upper portion of the piece in front of the vertical striping.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Blessing of the Sea

The vertical strip of printed cloth depicts at forty-five degree angle wave like forms resembling water. At the left edge are orange square checkerboard shapes.
Date: 1979~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[silk yardage, batiked]

The length of the silk yardage contains geometric shapes set at an angle and amongst the geometric shapes are smaller wave type shapes. The colors are dark blue to light blues and some warm yellow-browns.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[yardage, discharged bleach on acetate material and screen printed]

The dark cloth is decorated with a variety of pinwheel shapes in a bleached out manner with over screen printing in a turquoise color.
Date: 1980~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[yardage, discharged bleach on acetate material and screen printed]

The yardage consists of a dark ground fabric with randomly placed pinwheel shapes in a variety of patterns.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Clouds

The horizontally situated artwork depicts deep receding space and wide ribbons of gradated colors disappearing into the distance. The sky or space is a greenish blue hue and the ribbons range from rich orange brown to blue-green, dull yellows and beiges.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[room divider]

The room divider consists of long strips of fabric dyed and decorated with ribbons that resemble waves of water. The colors of the strips range from orange to blue-green and browns.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[room divider]

The vertical oriented room divider depicts a landscape type of scene with moon and sun type shapes floating through and among wave like shapes. The colors are in a range from warm orange and pale yellow to blue greens.
Date: 1979~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[dyed fabric]

The fabric is dyed and includes designs in circular form that seem to resemble the moon or the sun in a warm pink color. The background is a deep blue-green and in the lower portion is a large reddish moon or sun shape that resembles a setting sun.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bridges Into Space

The vertical wall hanging is dyed in strips that hang vertically. Moving horizontally through the piece are large curved shapes and one has a stair step type edge. The vertical strips create the horizontal design.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[an artwork from the from Bridges Into Space series]

The strongly geometrically designed artwork consists of vertical strips that create circles and angled stripes. The bold colors range from dark browns and deep yellows to both light and dark purples and blues.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[vertical striped shibori artwork]

Tie-dyed cotton tapes hang in front of dyed fabric. The colors are warm and cool and gradate simultaneously from side to side and top to bottom. The piece is striped vertically with some angled from high left to low right in a paler version of the underneath hue.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fall River

The long vertical piece is in muted browns and blues. Many circular shapes seem to float or fall down from the top of the work. Horizontal hatch type marks decorate the entire piece.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[tie-dyeing in a tall vertical artwork]

This long vertical work consists of a tie dyed or shibori method of screen printing. The imagery in the top portion of the work is a large red circle floating on an orange colored ground. The bottom portion of the work is a purple with many dark streaks running horizontally and a large light purple wave shape moves from the bottom edge of the work towards the top.
Date: 1977~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

[frames, circles, and a beach chair]

Many layers of handmade papers create depth along with the horizontal frames and cloud formations in the sky. In the center of the artwork are two collaged depictions of a red beach chair.
Date: 1993~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library