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Devorah Sperber

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Americana

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1961-

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After the Mona Lisa 2

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Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Devorah Sperber graduated from the Art Institute of Colorado in 1981 and received her B.A. from Regis University in Denver in 1987. She currently lives and works in New York City and Woodstock, New York. Learn more on the artist’s website.

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Devorah Sperber is an American installation artist known for creating works out of spools of thread, chenille pipe cleaners and map tacks that act as optical illusions. Some of her work has involved using thousands of spools of thread to create pixelated versions of iconic works of art by famous artists. Her naming scheme for these works generally follows the format "After [Artist]/[Work]". For example, her creation of the Mona Lisa using spools of thread is titled After The Mona Lisa 2. The spools are hung in long, adjacent columns to create a pointillist, inverted abstraction of a famous painting. When viewed by the naked eye, they are barely recognizable. When viewed through an optical device, usually a "viewing sphere" (a transparent sphere the size of a baseball) placed several feet in front of the spools), the abstractions are inverted and shrunk into a remarkably detailed and faithful image of…

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