Untitled (lamp), ed. # 18-22

Description

During her 2010 residency, Joan Jonas drew on Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy, to produce a multi-sensory performance and installation that used a free-association method to create a personal, eccentric visual language of our time. ⁠
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Jonas returned to FWM a few years later to make this edition of paper lamps using steel, Japanese paper, and LED lighting.

Joan Jonas, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.

Stainless steel, handmade Japanese paper, LED lighting
8 x 11 x 14 inches
Edition of 22, 4 APs (price listed for editions 1-10)

Meet the Artist

A photograph of an older white woman leaning over to draw or point with a long stick. She is wearing a thin white sweater buttoned at her waist over a dark skirt and light green pants.

Joan Jonas

During her 2010 FWM residency, multimedia and performance artist Joan Jonas used a free-association method to create a personal, eccentric visual language, bringing her interpretation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy to life while allowing her viewers to experience the resulting work without any preconceptions. Both the medieval era of Dante and our own time, she noted, are periods of extraordinary change.

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