Judy Kensley McKie: Cast of Characters

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Jun 2 2018 - Oct 28 2018

Judy McKie is one of America’s most beloved furniture designers and makers. Even the best artists sometimes need help, and this was the case for McKie when – encouraged by her colleague, the Bay Area furniture artist Garry Knox Bennett – she began to work in cast bronze. This required specialist fabrication skills. Enter a key player in the story: the Italian immigrant and master artisan Piero Mussi, whose Artworks Foundry is one of the top workshops in its field nationwide. Beginning in the early 1990s, McKie collaborated with Mussi and his skilled moldmakers, casters and finishers to realize her furniture. The foundry preserved a full record of this creative partnership, keeping not only examples of finished work in bronze, but other objects from the making process, including sketches, handcarved models and casting molds.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         

  • Various Media
  • American
  • 20th Century
  • Judy Kensley McKie
  • Piero Mussi
  • and others

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