Jennifer Tonkin
Co-Head of Department UK
Lot 79
MICHELE OKA DONER: 'CORAL REEF' COLLAR, CIRCA 2005
13 June 2024, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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Kate Flitcroft
Co-Head of Department UK
MICHELE OKA DONER: 'CORAL REEF' COLLAR, CIRCA 2005
Modelled as a branch of coral, signed Oka Doner, inner circumference very approximately 37.0cm
Footnotes
The internationally renowned artist and author, Michele Oka Doner (b.1945), is fascinated by the natural world and her work is informed by a lifelong study and appreciation of its organic forms, from bark and tree roots to the human body and the marine flora and fauna of her native Miami. Her output, which spans five decades, covers a vast range of mediums including sculpture, functional design objects, video installation, jewellery, costume and set design. Over the course of her career, Oka Doner has also created several important pieces of permanent public art installation, including 'Radiant Site' (1991), a groundbreaking tile installation for the New York subway and 'A Walk on the Beach', which is seen by 40 million travellers each year at Miami International Airport (1995-2010). One of the largest public artworks in the world, this latter work features a 1.25-mile long concourse consisting of 9,000 unique bronze sculptures inlaid with terrazzo and mother-of-pearl.
Oka Doner is represented by a number of internationally recognized galleries including, David Gill and Elisabetta Cipriani. Her work is also held in the permanent collections of some of the world's most prestigious museums and institutions including, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (the Louvre), the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the University of Michigan (from where Oka Doner has an honorary doctorate) and Yale and Harvard University museums amongst others.