Knotted fiber
A collection of three knotted fiber masks, including one in earth tones with artist's signature and title on verso "Mask for Celebrating the Arts"; another fiber art mask in vibrant pink and blue with artist's signature and dated 1991 on verso; and a third knotted fiber profile-view mask in green tones, each mounted to white painted wood and encased in a clear acrylic frame

overall: 20 x 18 x 4-1/2 in. (frame)

Adrienne Cullom, printmaker, painter, and fiber artist, was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 27, 1938. She studied at the Atlanta Art Institute in Georgia from 1956 to 1959 and, following her graduation, she traveled to Austria where she attended Vienna's Akademie fur Angewandt Kunst for one year. Receiving a scholarship from the French Government, she went to Paris, where she studied at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 from 1961 to 1962. Cullom met fellow printmaker Sergio Gonzales-Tornero at Atelier 17 and he followed her to Atlanta. They married, moved to a small railroad-flat apartment in Greenwich Village in New York, and raised a family. In New York, they continued their pursuit of printmaking by working at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in lower Manhattan. In 1968, they moved into a house in Mahopac, New York, acquired from Sergio’s publisher in exchange for prints, and set up their print shop. In 1995 she received the First Honorable Mention and, in 1997, the Best in Show from the Putnam Arts Council Exhibition in Mahopac, New York. Her work is represented in the High Museum of Art.