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THBMEG BLACK M'89, The Old Man and the Sea
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621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
United States
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TimedApr 4, 2026 - Apr 12, 2026
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162. MEG BLACK M'89
The Old Man and the Sea, 2025
Epoxy and abaca fiber
24 x 43 x 3.8
$2,750
Courtesy of the artist
Meg Black received a MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work was recently exhibited at Fuller Craft Museum and will be shown at the Fort Wayne, IN. Museum of Art in 2025-26. She has/have been a recipient of the Sarah Gilfert Award for excellence in fiber art. Her work is held in the collections of The Houghton Library of Harvard University and United States Department of State.
Visit: megblack.com
Artist's Description:
I thought up the title for this sculpture The Old Man and the Sea, after reading Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel about perseverance. Like the protagonist in Hemingway’s novel who despite having spent years as an accomplished fisherman, hasn’t caught a fish is 86 days, I worked on the idea to combine epoxy, a substrate that can be installed in a heavy traffic area, with abaca, a natural fiber that holds the pigment beautifully, allowing the colors to swim in the liquid epoxy as it searches for its ultimate shape and form, for four + years, on top of my 35+ years as a working artist. After many failures, or “2000 ways how not to make a epoxy and abaca sculpture,” I discovered a process that works.Exhibition Sponsor: 
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