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JACKIE FERRARA M145.
Masonite sculpture, 1975. 160x323x323 mm; 6 1/4x12 3/4x12 3/4 inches. Signed, titled and inscribed "7-75" in felt-tip pen and ink on the underside.
Provenance: Private collection, Connecticut.
Originally from Detroit, Ferrara (born 1929) had lived and worked in New York since moving to the city in the early 1950s. She became involved with the experimental Henry Street Playhouse and took classes in leathermaking and pottery classes at local settlement houses. She was encouraged to start sculpting by artists friends in Provincetown, including Mary and Robert Frank, Jan Müller, and Robert Beauchamp. Further enmeshed in the 1960s and 70s New York avant garde, Ferrara performed in Claes Oldenberg's Happenings, and started to show her sculptures in solo exhibitions in 1961. Her early style was organic and minimalist, using fabrics and ropes, and she was selected to exhibit in the 1970 Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, alongside artists such as Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos, Richard Artschwager, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, and Dan Flavin among others. Later, she would be included in the 1973 and 1979 Whitney Biennials, and become known for her stacked wood "ziggurat" sculptures, employing her childhood inclination toward mathematics.
