Night Boats
Micheline Klagsbrun
Wednesday April 28, 2021 through Saturday May 22, 2021
Night Boats is a series of mixed-media sculptures expressing the dislocation and migrations of my family as they escaped from and to various countries. The precarious quality of these pieces speaks to their sea voyages. Patched together from a variety of unseaworthy materials, this work evokes the refugees’ desperation and determination to escape, their resourcefulness and resilience. The current plight of refugees everywhere has been on my mind constantly and gives this work added resonance today. At the same time, the work alludes to other voyages through the darkness: the journey of the soul through the Underworld and the journeys we take when we close our eyes at night.
Night Boat of the Bones Unbutton’d
Micheline Klagsbrun
2021
Model boat, auto glass, tree branches, elk bones, fossilized oystershells, found metal, oyster shells, snail shell, coyote skull, glass beads, wire, Kozo tissue, ink, color pencil, gauze, Harry Lauder’s walking stick
52” x 32” x 44”
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Night Boat of the Wild Blue Yonder
Micheline Klagsbrun
2021
Model boat, elk antlers, found car horn, elk bone, Kozo tissue, ink, acrylic paint, gauze, oakleaf hydrangea, ivy, soil, marine varnish
60” x 35” x 24” (dimensions variable)
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Conductor of Souls
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Tree branches, tree bark, elk bone, cotton, wire, paper, ink, pastel, medium, glue
24” x 9” x 10”
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Night Boat for Joe
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Insect-inscribed tree branches, tree bark, acrylic paint, canvas, newspaper, wire, glue, oystershell
30” x 9” x 15”
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Night Boat for Joe - Reverse Side
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Night Barque for Osiris
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Tree branch, unryu paper, ink, shell, glue, medium
26” x 7” x 4”
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Night Boat of Butterfly Bones
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Wisteria branch, deer bones, shell, wire, gauze, unryu paper, vellum, ink, pigments, Harry Lauder’s walking stick, medium, glue
32” x 14” x 16”
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Night Boat Roots
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Harry Lauder’s walking stick, found model boat and objects, wire, unryu paper, ink, medium
42” x 35” x 14”
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Night Boat of the Inscriptions - Detail
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Night Boat of the Inscriptions
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Insect-inscribed tree bark, elk bone, acrylic paint, glass beads, unryu paper, ink, pastel, found object, wire, palm tree frond, medium, glue
32” x 12” x 17”
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Prayers on the Night Boat
Micheline Klagsbrun
2019
Insect-inscribed tree bark, found model boat, nails, wire, thorn bush branch, birch bark, gauze, paper, ink, medium, glue
38” x 10” x 19”
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Riding the Red Moon Wave
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Grapevine root, palm fronds, unryu paper, ink, vellum, wire, glue, fossilized wood
29” x 11” x 16”
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Riding the Red Moon Wave - Detail
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Wing of a Fallen Angel
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Elk bone, ink, paper, medium
18” x 8” x 9”
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Windblown Night Boat
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Tree bark, acrylic paint, wooden dowel, unryu paper, ink, vellum, shell, medium, glue
17” x 12” x 15”
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Windblown Night Boat - Detail
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SeaGhost Boat
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Tree bark, found model boat, string, wire, cotton, acrylic paint, unryu paper, ink, canvas
46” x 11” x 20”
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Night Boat in the Wind
Micheline Klagsbrun
2021
Tree branch, netting, spike deer antler, plastral scute of turtle, bamboo, unryu paper, ink, medium, glue
24” x 4” x 27”
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SeaBorne
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Colored pencil and ink on cyanotype on cotton
60” x 28”
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Night Barque of the Soul and Shadow
Micheline Klagsbrun
2020
Wisteria vines, wire, birch bark, ink, vellum, kozo tissue, petrified wood
64” x 22” x 11”
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