Ann Weber - Love and Other Audacities

Catalog from the exhibition Ann Weber: Love and Other Audacities, Craft and Folk Art Museum (now Craft Contemporary), May 22 - September 11, 2011.

Ann Weber's Audacities by Suzanne Isken, Executive Director, CFAM

Go Big, an interview by Kristin Farr, originally published online as Studio Invasion: Ann Weber at www.kqed.org/art, Visual Arts/KQED Public Media for Northern California, copyright Kristin Farr.

Human relationships are on Ann Weber's mind these days. "I am very interested in the sculptures as metaphors for life experiences," Weber says. The title of her exhibition, "Love and other Audacities," reflects her endorsement of the courage required to love in the face of loss and the audacity to tease beauty from such banal material as corrugated cardboard boxes. A master of creating massive form with the ad of an ordinary staple gun, she pieces together disparate pieces of cardboard employing techniques more associated with a weaver. Metaphorically, this interweaving recalls the essential and intensely complex process of human bonding and interconnectivity. - Suzanne Isken

Craft and Folk Art Museum, 2011, softcover, 8.5 x 11 inches, 16 pages.