MS. OKA DONER: Yes. It could be a very fine chair. Actually, it gets dark. Her student works included imaginary seeds and fruit. I've had it here probably I don't know. MS. SHEA: And how did you hear about it, just out of curiosity? I was five foot eight, practically, in junior high school, and that was not an asset in those days, so I developed myself in other ways.. 1945, Miami Beach) is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans four decades. And I once said to him, you know, I belong here, not there. MS. SHEA: And then you're also doing these sculptures that we can see. MS. SHEA: So tell me, what school did you go to for elementary? Before the revolution it had been a town of 8000 half Jews. It's called Ocean Branch. And that way people know that they're not interrupting you. And then from ten to about 4 I'm on my feet and working and doing, and maybe five sometimes or six. Yes, that I did, but I felt very guilty because I wanted to not disgrace my parents. MS. OKA DONER: I like to drink. And if you were a painter, you were doing color field or stripes. He is the founder of the American Seminar Leaders Association and is a popular presenter at national meetings and conferences, including the Million Dollar Round Table. National Art Databases and Museum Inventories: MS. OKA DONER: Yes. Did you know that when you were a child? MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] And everything is speaking, which is it's a very live atmosphere for me. You know, by the time I got to 59th Street, I was there. And there's a real structure and geometry, which I thought related to the architecture of the building even. MS. OKA DONER: And suffering from having the, some kind of weight on me that I couldn't possibly remove. How do you find time or make time to read? MS. OKA DONER: I am looking for them as we speak, because he had a daughter, my mother's sister Dorothy, who studied with Hans Hofmann and showed with Betty Parsons and with Tibor di Nagy. Was there . MS. OKA DONER: Yes, much smaller. You know, it was then 60,000, maybe today its 80,000. And I realized, always in Michigan I found magic. That came out beautifully ["Jewels of the Sea," 2005]. MS. SHEA: And is this someone you kind of knew as a friend? WebMichele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans over five decades. And then I said I have a song I learned in elementary school that was called "The Ash Grove", and I know it was from the old English. And at a dinner party a few months ago at Thierry Despont's, who also shows at Marlborough [Marlborough Gallery, New York City], I met two men at the table and they kept referring to William James as the great American philosopher who opened the mind to what we call synchronicity now and resonance. Yes. Now, that can't be. Several contain a mixture of organic and inorganic materials: sandpaper, fragments of an old polaroid photograph, rubbings from a Roman button found in Spain, a vacuum cleaner filter, fabric from a family couch, tests for different paint colors, and bark and root scraps left over from a recent work on paper. So this whole book, I think, is a feedback loop.
And that's how it began. The same is true in art. It has a nuance. That project was probably about seven years ago. It was serving justice, so I found the symbols of justice. But I really somehow hit my stride running, and from very early on, and I wasn't looking for a voice, I had a voice. MS. SHEA: And what was it like teaching high school? And light streams through her sculpture Totem, built from archival wax and organic materials between 2007 and 2015. And so I'd say the '70s when I lived in Detroit were the decade where I studied the Mayan civilizations and was interested in Diego Rivera, which of course started in Detroit with the murals. MS. SHEA: But in a sense maybe you had already kind of had that, it sounds like to me.
I had an organic voice.
Her work is in collections worldwide, notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cooper-Hewitt, La Muse Des Artes Dcoratifs, the Louvre, the Wolfsoniana in Genoa, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Virginia Museum, the St. Louis Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Yale Art Gallery, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Perez Art Museum Miami. MS. OKA DONER: And so for me in many ways raising the sons was a reflection back onto skills I didn't know I had. And then I walked around the area where they built the library and picked up different leaves and twigs and brought it back to the studio and worked from whatever was there. MS. SHEA: I'm guessing that might have been a contrast [laughs] because it sounds like he had great (inaudible) where you were, I'm guessing, a little more quiet, a little more . I always built things on the beach, she says. [Laughs. There's a history of justice, Hammurabi receiving the code of justice; and there's the Buddhist wheel of justice; Thoth the Egyptian god of the underworld, but who's the god of justice. We're in business. MS. SHEA: And you were told it would only live . MS. OKA DONER: Lots of rootedness, lots of connections, lots of music, lots of stories. I had the railroad tracks because that's where the train was. MS. OKA DONER: I started with shells, and then insects I always liked. And at the same time I was doing the wall at Herald Square, and so they just grew up simultaneously. (45.7 121.9 50.8 cm) Classifications: Metalwork, Lighting Credit Line: Gift of Frances F. Bowes, 2013 Accession Number: 2013.44 Learn more about this artwork There were very few people going in those days. MS. SHEA: So they liked that combination of glass. And if you want it, I'll sell it to you at a very good price. MS. SHEA: And So do you have a particular kind of rhythm of the day when you're working? And you'd have to be someplace, I would say, rural or industrial to build the kind of kiln it would take to make the larger figures. I started in clay because I think it's like sand, which I had done a lot of building in as a child sitting on the beach.
And I did have a great time. There were all these laws and rules. MS. OKA DONER: Necessity today, yes.
And so we just took the risk, and it was a huge risk. And no, it was a very unusual thing to do. And those were the smaller you'd call them human figures? MS. OKA DONER: Well, it's okay. And of course my father was a judge, so that was even more exciting too to come back to that part of my childhood in some way. MS. SHEA: How long ago was that exhibition? MS. OKA DONER: Well, most people wouldn't know, but I used to go there and come out, and there would be the fountain with the Milles sculpture and there would be beautiful reeds growing in a pond. So you taught both, you said, the art history and in art classes? And since I wasn't a hunter . Would you fly? Yes, I'm the grandmother of installations. The idea of sodium and how salt lines up on axes; it's really quite beautiful, and they're kind of fuzzy lines. MS. OKA DONER: Autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road. MS. SHEA: And did you have a studio on the campus? For some people love is given, for others only heaven.". You wouldnt believe what would come out tiny shrimp, baby crabs and beautiful little sargassum fish.. It's also in the book, Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden [Michele Oka Doner and Mitchell Wolfson Jr.; New York: Regan, 2007.] And he went to Mills College [Oakland, CA] after he left Ann Arbor, and he then ended up growing pot. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.]
Had I had done the table, I would have designed it to have a table. So I'm actually interrupting your work time. It's Cakile edentula, something like that, is the Latin, because we went to the nature preserve to find out what they were. MS. OKA DONER: Well, I'd say it's the space where I can put a lot of big pieces and raw material and fill it up in a different way than this space, which is more considered. MS. OKA DONER: And we collected a horde of fossils. Is there like a . I'd say the Miami was the deco, you know, kind of funky, and Morris Lapidus, and the Detroit was really serious. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.]
And his name was Lee and he was killed in the war, and I am named for him; Michele Lee. I know what's going on. And most people thought of me as a Bennington-Sarah Lawrence type. It was the International Geophysical Year [IGY], a pause in hostilities during the Cold War, and a time to think about the family of nature, the family of scientists in the East and the West, and the taxonomic relationships that keep things in order. There were burials in that Natufian culture. Tell me about maybe if there was a moment was your family very oriented toward the visual arts?
Pei did the glass pyramid. Amulets, masks, artifacts, arrowheads, odds and ends from the artists foundry are lined up like grave offerings in front of the ceramic figures, an extension of the play between anthropology and artistry, collecting and making. MS. OKA DONER: Well, each base is unique for the bronze because there are so many undercuts and so much energy you can't make a mold. I sit in the library, sometimes Saturday evening, and pull things out. The architectural settings for .
It was quite spectacular, quite wonderful. As her commissions grew in magnitude, she wove together two threads from art history.
And you could apply for a fellowship, which I did.
Not long ago I visited Oka Doner at her remarkable New York SoHo loft, which occupies the entire second floor of a historic cast-iron building and where she lives with her husband, Frederick Doner, and raised their two now grown sons. MS. OKA DONER: It's quiet time. And they had my son Jeremy play the violin. MS. OKA DONER: I loved Michigan. Are they drying? MS. SHEA: Doing this whole process. [Laughs.]. MS. SHEA: And was there art taught in elementary school?
I don't do yoga. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] There's only 79 bronzes in an 18-foot in diameter medallion, but it has moths and bats and butterflies, birds, propellers. MS. SHEA: To support that.
MS. OKA DONER: Yes, there's a lot. MS. OKA DONER: Yes. I get up early. MS. OKA DONER: I can't just sort of wing it. I wonder if you could crane that through the window. Then we would take out big chunks of sargassum seaweed and shake them over the pond. And you have another one of your burning bushes on that space.
It's called an Ice Ring [1989.] So he talked about the beauty of feedback loops. 2008. MS. OKA DONER: And I don't want tired work. I've always had a connection with that place, with the Sheeler painting of it. And cities are about that. Web363 followers.
I see it every day.. I think often people think of making those kind of changes slightly earlier. So I'm working on both the Michigan project and Miami Airport at the same time. In 1981, she and her husband, Frederick, then an advertising executive, moved with their two young sons to New York, lured by Sohos spacious live/work lofts and tight-knit art world. And then the next thing I knew my phone rang and they asked me to come to the museum with a portfolio, which I did, and John gave me the show "Works in Progress" [1978.] MS. OKA DONER: You can't be in it for the long haul. And you don't want, let's say, Los Angeles architects just to consider Los Angeles artists. In fact there's a beautiful spread in the Miami Beach book of her Sumi-e painting because my parents went to Japan head of the People-to-People program for the city of Fujisawa and Miami Beach. MS. SHEA: And when you're traveling in, it sounds, like both Central and South America, how would you do that? You'll go to the computer and check your e-mail when you have the time. Well, actually that's beeswax. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] Then Newark. MS. SHEA: And you do a lot of travel, it seems to me. MS. OKA DONER: "Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul. MS. SHEA: Oh, I bet there were some amazing colors in that. MS. SHEA: And that must have been before they redid now it's kind of part of the museum, the glass shops. MS. OKA DONER: No, I was 10 minutes away. They had wanted me to bring bronze. So I got a call from a dealer after it was published and he said, you know, I've had a chair. It was one of the last of the glass companies, or the last, because I don't think that there's any glass being made in Libbey Owens in Toledo. It really was very vital in the '20s and '30s, the Scarab Club, all the Pewabic tiles everywhere. MS. OKA DONER: Well, I could teach myself things when I left. Her first chair came about because she had two pieces left from Celestial Plaza, a commission for the American Museum of Natural History, so she put them together. I love wine, but I like it when I sit down and have a meal. Her first video, A Walk on the Beach premiered at Art Basel Miami Beach (2011) in the public screenings "Art Video" program in SoundScape Park on the 7,000 square foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center.[40]. MS. SHEA: So you were kind of off and running in that gallery world. MS. OKA DONER: And 3-D. And Buckminster Fuller was a big icon at the time, and so we had to make these tens what are they, tensar, tenser structures, where we bought balsa wood rods and had to cut them into two-inch and three-inch lengths and then saw the middle of the edges and get nylon thread and with one wrap make them stand up. MS. SHEA: By then if you'd been running around to the Louvre [laughs] maybe they . I can still see her, tall and thin, lots of freckles, and she was a redhead. It could be. Her corrections and emendations appear below in brackets with initials. You know, that things just keep moving, moving forward. And then I learned that there was a lot of randomness, I just had to begin to look for it. And I'm interested in all kinds of pathways and journeys. WebMichele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans over five decades. MS. OKA DONER: Each one has a set of it has a geography which dictates in a way the color; you know, what tone.
I was a teaching fellow.
The reader should bear in mind that they are reading a transcript of spoken, rather than written, prose. I mean but it is you know, I mean I don't really practice anything. That didn't used to be. MS. SHEA: Right. And did you see some things that interested you out in the gallery realm? It seemed to me that you recommended them both working, in a very serious way, and reading, I think, you thought was important.
Or do you kind of think about things for a while? MS. OKA DONER: I don't do intellectual work at night. Oka Doner participated in a Manupelli experimental film, a "Map Read" performance with art drawing instructor Al Loving and Judsonite dancer Steve Paxton as well as several "Happenings." I know he knew. I need to delegate. Participants will learn the blocking and tackling skills needed to close more sales from the inside by asking smart questions, actively listening, and handling objections. MS. OKA DONER: I think it's wonderful to have a basis in all of art history and to understand you're part of a continuum of visual expression. It's a huge school. MS. OKA DONER: I didn't teach in the art classes, but I took a degree at the school of education and I taught in the summer at Ann Arbor High School. I didnt think about comfort., Perhaps most remarkable is that, although she lives in the most urban of American cities, Oka Doner remains firmly connected to the natural world. And then when I did build a kiln, I did raku. So this is very new, very recent thinking to take art out of architecture, to take architecture out of engineering. There are some very interesting combinations of cities out there. Youre coming into my cave, the artist warns teasingly, then continues, and this is a cave. And so I didn't have a very classical education. We all pulse electrical waves, and we are tuning forks. And we were just trying to feed your fish that is, it seems like, going through, I guess, part of that cycle of , MS. OKA DONER: withdrawal, which is very normal when you're an aged fish. MS. SHEA: And even at that point, for your collecting of those kinds of things, when did you feel that you really started doing that? MS. SHEA: [Laughs.] And of course, one could say all manmade images are nature too, are natural.
Ive made a sacred space. In almost thirty years, its never been damaged..
MS. SHEA: That would be nice. And these projects are about the essence.
And I love it. MS. OKA DONER: That was wonderful. I still have it. You couldn't live off campus in those days. The first one's Tennessee, tulip and poplar. And it takes about 45 minutes by the time, anyway, you've drawn and cut out your wax and it's cooled and your other wax is melted and you can start again. And that's a Victorian, an Irish Victorian chair that was my Mother's Day present about 30 years ago. And then Lee Nordness came and I had three in the studio. I needed a table, I made a table.
My mother had no interest in nature. Oka Doner, of course, is an artist, not a scientist. MS. SHEA: Part of it So you went to Wayne State, and then were you teaching at Wayne State as well, or just learning how to do paper? And are . MS. OKA DONER: I think I always liked mother of pearl, and I certainly have always loved black lacquer. MS. SHEA: And then so you'll recite the poem? Right.
Washington, DC 20001, 300 Park Avenue South Suite 300 In the spring, dressed in leotards, ribbons, and sandwich boards, we portrayed the planets orbiting the sun. Now, by any chance do know how your parents met? They were from the musselsthey had been collected from the mussels they ate . MS. OKA DONER: I know, everything now is secondary and tertiary, it's not primary.
MS. SHEA: Crushed on the street. WebCreators Michele Oka Doner Art Michele Oka Doner Art Category Back To All Categories Art 9 Prints and Multiples 5 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings 2 Mixed Media 2 Sculptures 2 Price to Shipping Options Item Location USA 9 Search Locations Orientation Horizontal 6 Vertical 1 Size IN CM Miniature (<18 in) 3 Small (18 in24 in) 6 Overall Height to MS. OKA DONER: No. And I was just discussing at lunch today with a friend, her mother, who was like my mother, worked and had a very high-level job for a woman in her 50s, and my mother with all of her intelligence and skills to organize and do things didn't direct it outside the home. MS. SHEA: Yes, take their little journey from Florida. That's a very simple, small project, and that was my experiment with would these forms work in terrazzo as well as cement. I did also, in Philadelphia, the Criminal Justice Center ["Lexicon Justice," 1995]. [Laughs. And my mother had a really good sense of what spare was, what Zen was. But they gave me an A-plus. MS. OKA DONER: They went to private school. MS. SHEA: So it's limited. MS. SHEA: And then that particular thing because I was just reading about the telegraph, and you know they thought the telegraph would be forever, and it's not. MS. SHEA: Right. MS. SHEA: That's really interesting to me.
And tell me about your father's family.
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MS. SHEA: And when you talk about this, I often think about a young artist starting out that wouldn't have that same depth of experience, but it's what are your thoughts on that? There was one big empty plaster column, so I went and referenced that same book. MS. OKA DONER: Well, I made a wax form. And Orpheus came and played his lyre. And I have a book on Mayan papermaking that's really remarkable, with samples, and several rare books on Egypt. My father played the violin, and his father also. Are these . All of the work that functions arose from my initial need. And I'd say more than anything that's a little research library. And Japan didn't have a word for art. MS. SHEA: And you chose black candles for them. So as I look around the space, I see space for eating and entertaining. This steel work table is covered with what Oka Doner refers to as shapes and forms of interest, models for old and new projects. MS. OKA DONER: And you could really look at the statues and look at the paintings and play. WebMichele Oka Doner has been called natures scribe. The sculptures and decorative objectscandelabras, tableware, and accessoriesshe creates recall organic forms, resembling bark, tree roots, microscopic molecules, and the human body. We interviewed her in her loft in SoHo where she lives with her husband, and, until they grew up, her two sons. MS. OKA DONER: I made them. And the Tennessee courthouse also has, besides the wonderful articulation at the top of plant life, around the column shaft itself, like you see on these Corinthians, there's usually a secondary band. I used an aggregate called Neva black, which is from Nevada, and it had little bits of gold in it, too.
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Miami Beach native Michele Oka Doner leaves footprint on upcoming Aspen Ideas: Climate Conference Written By Elisa Turner May 3, 2022 at 10:10 PM Miami Beach native and artist Michele Oka Doner will visit the Aspen Ideas: Climate. Her artistic legacy has long been inspired by Floridas fragile eco-system. Don't worry." Unfortunately, much of this potential is never realized because the inside sales team has not been properly trained and coached. You didn't have many things unless somebody wove something to hang up on the wall or . I used them differently. MS. OKA DONER: I was in Milan to show some work in silver to another company, and I met somebody I knew for dinner. I don't do anything on a regular I don't go to classes, I should say, but I'm aware. Did you call them?
And my cousin [Doris Feldman] remembers him taking her by the hand to the Metropolitan Opera House and showing her the frescoes. And before that his family, they were scribes and they took notes in the Rabbi's Court in Vilna [Lithuania]. And you would have to build a soffit or run put a plug and have a sort of, what do you call it? And I do my best work early and usually by four in the afternoon. . That you should have gone a little higher, maybe? Time and place have had their say." I would have kept that, but the parchment was so torn you couldn't sit, so I had no choice. [11][12] Many examples of her work can be found on campus, including Science Benches, commissioned by the University (1990). And the walls in those buildings are cement and you can't run a wire. But I remember as a child seeing his black Coast Guard coat and his binoculars in the closet, and I was so fascinated with them. The following organizations have participated in Wholesaler Institute events: This program will be conducted virtually via Zoom meetings, Getting call backs and through gatekeepers, Handling objections and closing on next step, Copyright 2021. And then on the piano we have a piece that you talked about during your talk in Grand Rapids, which is again it seemed like it was a situation where you looked for was it a candelabra or something that you were searching for? So it's really in the last 200 years you have any kind of production of images. I thought that was a very interesting project. MS. SHEA: Original? MS. SHEA: Let's see. I seek to pull out of the vernacular, the time and place, something that becomes again reduced to an essential element, compressed, so to speak. MS. SHEA: That's very wonderful, the words. Now, that was an amazing coincidence. MS. SHEA: You know, you kind of talked a little bit about the problem of still getting things manufactured and made in the United States. In Mexico they have the San Cayetano Church, where theres so much ornate gold and that luster enhances the spirituality of the building and perhaps adds comfort for those who gather there.. In Europe, I had seen what I call the room as a work of art.
MS. SHEA: Oh. And I had never seen woodpeckers that are as large as dogs, and they were so close to me.
MS. OKA DONER: L-E-A-R. And that is actually pictured in the book that I published. I suppose, you know, this phone call, and then you seeing this object and that inspiring you, and then you thinking about it and implementing it and then coming back to them. And what he did is he went on Saturdays, many artists did, to the Metropolitan Museum here in New York, and he sat down and he painted all day.
MS. SHEA: It must have been quite an adventure to put the table in the middle of the ring. 
Do you find it draining? MS. OKA DONER: We make them here.
And it didn't hurt the tree, apparently. That's Schmidt's in Ypsilanti.
MS. OKA DONER: Really? You know, there's no quote-unquote ceiling. I'll read Tagore poetry on Bengal. That's the hardest one. Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Michele Oka Doner, 2007 August 20-November 17. Once it all got up and running, they were very happy. I think you said in your lecture first you did the tables; is that correct? MS. SHEA: That's what I was going to say, because it seems like such a large, open, sprawling I'm sure even back then. We're they actually created in two pieces? Because it used to be the phone didn't ring. Their names were Dr. Leo and her name was Elizabeth Fishbein. One was decorative, really, to bring back the essence of how justice began. [Laughs.]. There was the burial of a woman, more than ten thousand years old, and the skeleton had pearls around her neck. See available sculpture, design, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist. At the same time, her practice developed beyond sculpture to, among other media, beguiling works on paper, often embedded with organic material, which are represented by Marlborough Graphics and available on 1stdibs. MS. OKA DONER: I'm in pretty good physical shape. MS. OKA DONER: And he took Claes Oldenburg through the Fisher Building. They're not drying. MS. SHEA: More territory today. In this book [Michele Oka Doner: Natural Seduction by Suzanne Ramljak; New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2003; p.190-191] it shows a little bit in the back; there's some process. Oka Doner is a gracious hostess and you can tell immediately shes both intrepid and slightly shy. But then I innocently said, well, can we start with The Golden Bowl [Henry James; London: Methuem, 1963]? And it was a period of time in the '80s when Voyager was sent out into outer space. Oka Doner calls the library, designed by Erich Theophile in 1990, the heart of the loft. MS. OKA DONER: you really can't sustain it. I couldn't find anything except pieces of brass at the hardware store that had duck heads. See, I'm cutting it. And then I read on the way to Michigan a book somebody sent me on the shamanistic beekeepers of England, you know.
I had never lived in a city, and Miami wasn't a city. MS. OKA DONER: And he's the one I'm working with now. MS. OKA DONER: One did bronzes, one did furniture, one did cars. It turns out that John Neff was the curator at the time at the museum. MS. OKA DONER: Well, that and it held dirt and it was very hard to get them to keep it clean. MS. OKA DONER: North Beach Elementary School. I've also worked with Christofle, and I don't know which one is older. MS. SHEA: [Laughs.]
MS. SHEA: So when you came to the Midwest, ever do that with I think you can do that with . MS. SHEA: And do you feel that you kind of maybe got that from your mother, or do you feel like you've carefully developed that and focused on trying to have that? It's what it takes. MS. OKA DONER: It gave me a fullness. MS. SHEA: And then the dried branches that are within, is that the same plant?
MS. SHEA: Okay, so it's certainly not there anymore. There was no e-mail in those days.
