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December 19, 2004
Athena Tacha at Marsha Mateyka
This American artist, best known for her public works and landscape architecture, recently retired from teaching.
She's created a striking group of works for her new exhibition, "Shields and Universes: Sculptures and Drawings," at the Marsha Mateyka Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Her outdoor works are powerful, assertive, large pieces, but the works she's made for this show are smaller and far more delicate.
The wall sculptures were created from accumulated organic materials - seashells, feathers, even cicada parts.
"17 Year Shield" (at the very top of this post) consists of countless cicada exoskeletons massed into a round form more than 30 inches across.
The show is up through next Thursday, December 23. (2012 R St. NW; 202-328-0088)
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