Tomorrow is the Whitney Museum’s annual art party, which also has an auction component. I was going through the art that they’re auctioning and came across the artist Michele Oka Doner who I can’t believe I didn’t know about before. Her work is also inspired by nature, she also makes large scale figural works as well as interior design elements like flooring, fishbowls and candelabras.
Michele was educated at the University of Michigan and did post-grad work at Wayne State University.
On her site you see these fishbowls with actual fish in them – so cool. She casts a lot of her work in bronze and I think the fabrication of the glass is actually done by the same place that fabricated some of Ted Muehling’s work as well.
I love this enormous candelabra looking like an overturned root base system. We had a lot of trees fall at our house in New Hampshire during last year’s ice storm and I imagine this is very representational.
Michele also makes some jewelry – I like this urchin type shape, those are diamonds at the end of the tentacles I believe.
An amazing chair – looks like coral to me.
Similar to Michelle Lougee, this bowl looks like a nut or seed pod and juxtaposes two different textures inside and out.
Tags: 3D, decor, decorative arts, inspired by nature, nature