{"id":12626,"date":"2025-09-17T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12626"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:12:53","slug":"key-sekimachi-a-personal-archive-at-andrew-kreps-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/17\/key-sekimachi-a-personal-archive-at-andrew-kreps-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Sekimachi, &#8216;A Personal Archive&#8217; at Andrew Kreps Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delicate-looking yet holding down an entire wall, Kay Sekimachi\u2019s eye-grabbing monofilament sculpture has an ethereal presence that contrasts the smaller yet seemingly weightier woven pieces in her mini-retrospective at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewkreps.com\/exhibitions\/kay-sekimachi2\">Andrew Kreps Gallery<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0Select works from the \u201850s to the \u201890s show Sekimachi\u2019s inventive approach to weaving, which the 98-year-old fiber-artist has developed over an almost 80-year career.\u00a0 Having learned double-weave technique in the \u201850s from German American textile artist Trude Guermonprez, Sekimachi developed the practice to create sculptural works that could be hung to dynamic effect. (On view in Tribeca through Nov 1<sup>st<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4406px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/9327fb92-308e-19d2-441e-eaf9b6439cea.jpg\" width=\"4406\" height=\"5888\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kay Sekimachi, Large Green Monofilament (Study for Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel Commission), green monofilament, 102 x 24 x 15 inches, 1972.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delicate-looking yet holding down an entire wall, Kay Sekimachi\u2019s eye-grabbing monofilament sculpture has an ethereal presence that contrasts the smaller yet seemingly weightier woven pieces in her mini-retrospective at Andrew Kreps Gallery. \u00a0\u00a0Select works from the \u201850s to the \u201890s show Sekimachi\u2019s inventive approach to weaving, which the 98-year-old fiber-artist has developed over an almost &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/17\/key-sekimachi-a-personal-archive-at-andrew-kreps-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Key Sekimachi, &#8216;A Personal Archive&#8217; at Andrew Kreps Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[1270,11478,114,10068,11477,1463,10889,7567,2715,2570],"class_list":["post-12626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-andrew-kreps-gallery","tag-bonaventure-hotel","tag-contemporary-art","tag-fiber-art","tag-kay-sekimachi","tag-la","tag-monofilament","tag-tribeca","tag-weaving","tag-woven-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3hE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12628,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626\/revisions\/12628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}