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[concentric circle and faces]

Description: Blue amorphic outer shape holds concentric circles in which are faces cut from magazines. In the lower right portion of the work are many parallel vertical gray lines. Wisps of clouds can be seen in the background or sky area.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

[handmade paper on silk artwork]

Description: This detail view of the artwork shows the texture of the handmade paper in strips and geometric shapes. The background silk consists of images of cloud forms and geometric structural type lines that echo the handmade paper shapes.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

St. Matthew

Description: This acrylic painting on paper consists of small geometric shapes spread across the surface of ninety-degree turned and columnar patterns. St. Matthew is depicted at the lower right edge in an outline. An upside down silhouette shape of a dog is included in the upper left portion of the painting.
Date: unknown
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

[room divider]

Description: The vertical hanging room divider consists of strips of color that start and stop creating geometric shapes. The colors are both warm and cool, pinks and blues.
Date: 1979
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

[room divider]

Description: The room divider is of various muted ranges of reds, purples with some blues and greens. On the left side is a red wave form reaching into the distance or top edge of the room divider.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Canyon

Description: The almost square cotton velvet artwork consists of ribbon like shapes on edge receding into the distance creating a canyon like imagery. The colors are gradated in browns, purples and blues.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

My Dream

Description: The vertical orientation with the muted and pale purples and blues of this piece create in ribbon like forms a simultaneous recession and progression of space.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Study of Forms and Color

Description: The strong colors and vertical orientation with definite geometric shapes and stripes contribute to the graphic design. Blue and white stripes on the right hand side with a gradated purple sphere on the left and orange sphere at the top right are linked with some angled green lines.
Date: unknown
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Blue Tide

Description: This queen sized bedspread, screen printed on cotton velvet, was created while Spear studied at Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The bedspread gradates from purples to blues with long wave shapes in a pale yellow gold color.
Date: 1978
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Texas Series

Description: Acrylic paint on paper depicting two large squares, one turned forty-five degrees and both filled with small lines, dots, and dashes creating many more small grids. Light blues and purples dominate.
Date: 1978
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

Storm, NYC Rooftop

Description: Long multi-colored pieces are arranged on a rooftop in an urban setting. The pieces are arranged both in organic lines as well as straight lines filling the rooftop area. Some pieces partially move above the base and some appear suspended in space.
Date: 1981
Creator: Falsetta, Vincent

Space Behind the Dark Wall

Description: The dark ground of the piece also contains square shapes that create great depth and floating on the surface appear trapezoidal pink shapes. The blue ground contains square that gradate from very dark to somewhat lighter and pink in tone. The pink shapes on the surface, floating parallel to the ground, gradate from a lighter pink to darker pink.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko

Wind

Description: The work depicts a landscape sort of space with a striated mountainous shape on the left side of the work and at the bottom of the mountain are some white ripples of water. On the right side of the work are two white shapes, resembling the sheets of floating paper, may depict snow covered mountains. Floating down through the sky are several white shapes that appear to be sheets of paper. Some very think ribbons float horizontally through the space.
Date: 1982~
Creator: Spear, Shigeko
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