| Christa Maiwald |
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| Garden Party (2007), an installation at the Museum of Arts & Design of thirteen portrait lamps of ruthless world leaders, past and present. From the exhibition Pricked: Extreme Embroidery. |
| Servitude (2008), an installation of eleven portrait lamps of employers who have overstepped the bounds of propriety. |
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| Musical Chairs: Economic Crisis in G-Minor (2009), an installation of thirteen children's chairs whose cushions are embroidered with portraits of financial “geniuses” who have played leading roles in the ruination of the economy not only of the United States but much of the world. |
| Details from Blue Chip (2009-2011), hand-embroidered portraits of fifty artists who are, or have been, internationally recognized as important artists and, in most cases, financially successful. |
| Left: Blue Chip, 2011. Right: Blue Chip and Musical Chairs, 2009. Installation views at Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, 2012. Blue Chip also shown at Bertrand Delacoix Gallery, New York City, 2011. |