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In
1990, artist Elizabeth Keithline invented a sculpture technique called
"Lost Box", wherein wire is woven around an object which is
then burned, leaving only a wire mesh shape behind. The largest piece
she ever wove was an upright
piano, rescued from the refuse heap, which was burned on-air on WRNI
radio in May, 2002. The flames were thirty feet high. |
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Her latest one-person show entitled: "Two Installations: The Lost House Project and Ourchitecture" was at the Newport Art Museum. For "The Lost House Project" she constructed a full-scale, modular "lost dwelling". "Ourchitecture" consists of a model neighborhood created by various artists. Keithline is a full-time artist, whose work has been shown nationally and is in many collections. She has also taught Fibers at Rhode Island College, coordinated the Annual Rhode Island Graffiti Contest, and run a school-based artist-in-residency program. Currently, she also serves as a consultant to the town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island in their pursuit of public sculpture. |