Kostianovsky’s soft sculptures seek to offer “carnal knowledge’, but not of the type that Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel sought in the 1971 film of that name. It’s about desire but not lust.

STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Kristen Ripley, the art teacher at Amherst Regional High School, helps Anisa Turku, left, and Sydney Holmes during a collaborative soft sculpture project at the high school.

Art quilts, wall hanging and 3D tapestries: Looking at the work of Quinn Hawkesworth and Nancy Garretson. Last in a three-part series on the popularity of fiber arts in the ...

Artists In Her Home Studio, Soft-Sculpture Artist MiKyoung Lee Gives Form to Twist Ties, Pipe Cleaners, and Thread The artist’s debut museum exhibition “Threading Memories” is now on view at ...

Phillips will offer two Kusama soft-sculptures from 1965 that have been owned by the Becht family since that same year at its evening auction of 20th-century and contemporary art on May 17 in New ...

• How long does it take to create one soft sculpture? I can turn one out in 15 minutes. Years ago, I made 100 a day with two seamstresses. The only helper I have now is my mother, Laverne.

But to build that public art resume, she has to start small, she said, with $2,000 sculptures, and work her way up. The timing feels right, though the timing of her life has always seemed auspicious.

Riege’s sculptures, which currently sell for between $10,000 and $50,000, now sit in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Forge Project in New York, Tia Collection in Santa Fe, the ...