Guild Hall invites you into the studios of our closest artist friends and supporters for a weekly art break. Utilizing simple materials found at home, learners of all ages will explore new ways of bringing creativity into their everyday by virtually visiting and creating with an East End artist.
In this episode, join artist Almond Zigmund and her daughter for a found-object collage project.
Needed Materials:
- Cardboard
- Various found materials, string, cloth, bags, dried peppers, etc.
- Adhesive: Glue stick, glue gun, masking tape, duct tape, etc.
- Scissors
- Basic acrylics – any color
If you post your art to social media, be sure to hashtag it with #GHARTBREAK
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Almond Zigmund
Originally from Brooklyn, Almond Zigmund received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, in New York and Paris and an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she studied art theory and criticism with the MacArthur Award-winning critic, Dave Hickey.
Zigmund makes large-scale site-responsive installations, discrete sculptures, works on paper, and paintings. Combining crisp geometry, vivid color, and intricate patterns, her sculptures and installations often suggest walls, barricades, enclosures, and other aspects of the built environment. The architectonic works tend to engage the eye and the body at once, offering generous amounts of visual stimulation while also inducing visceral reactions to the virtual and actual spaces.
Zigmund's work has been exhibited internationally and is in public and private collections. She has done several public and private site-specific installations, including at the Parrish Museum of Art, CMA in New York, and The University of LaVerne in California. She has completed 2 public commissions for the NYC Dept of Transportation, and large scale murals at the The Whitman Walker Health Center in Washington DC, Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, and at One Financial Plaza in NYC as part of the Brookfield Arts program. She most recently completed a commission for a public sculpture with the US State Department Art in Embassies Program in Paraguay and is currently developing a series of public sculptures.
Photo: Francine Fleischer