All About Glass

All About Glass

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LaMonte Evening Dress
Video

Listen as curator, Tina Oldknow, describes Evening Dress with Shawl  by American artist Karen LaMonte. Karen LaMonte's hauntingly beautiful female figures evoke the fragmented bodies of classical antiquity and the pristine statues of 19th-century American neoclassicism. By using translucent,