Gallery

crochet coral sculptures

Coral Forest – Helsinki, crocheted from recycled plastic. A collaboration between Christine and Margaret Wertheim and the Helsinki Satellite Reefers, hosted by Helsink Art Museum and Helsinki Biennial 2021.

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Pink and orange reef scultpture against dramatic blue background

Pod World – Hyperbolic, at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Crochet pieces by Christine Wertheim, Margaret Wertheim, Anitra Menning and Heather McCarren.

Photo courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, by Italo Rondinella.
Six reef sculptures in glass vitrines in gallery with striking blue background

Pod Worlds at the 2019 Venice Biennale exhibition May You Live In Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff.

Photo courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, by Italo Rondinella.
Reef scultpture

Pod Worlds, at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

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Reef sculptures in gallery dramatically lit against black background

Bleached Reef and Toxic Reef at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

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Reef sculpture closeup

Bleached Reef – detail, at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

Photo courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, by Italo Rondinella.
Reef sculpture

Pod World – Plastic Fantastic at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Pieces crocheted by Christine Wertheim and Kathleen Greco, resting on a bed of “plastic sand” gathered from Kamilo Beach, Hawaii by Captain Charles Moore, discoverer of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Photo courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, by Italo Rondinella.
Reef sculptures in gallery

Coral Forest at Lehigh University Art Galleries.

Photo by Stephanie Veto for LUAG.
Reef sculptures in gallery

Coral Forest – Stheno & Coral Forest – Nin Imma, with Branched Anemone Garden, at Lehigh University Art Galleries.

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Coral reefs exhibited in glass vitrines in a room with blue walls.

Toxic Reef and Bleached Reef with Pod Worlds (at right) and Hyperbolic Sea Snake by Helen Bernasconi, at the Museum of Art and Design, NYC.

Photo by Jenna Bascom for MAD.
Coral reef made from beads on top of smooth stones and a dramatic black background.

Beaded Jellyfish by Vonda N. McIntyre, at Science Gallery, Dublin.

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Reef sculpture in gallery.

Bleached Reef, at the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC).

Photo by Jenna Bascom for MAD.
Glowing circular sculptures

Coral Forest – Ea (detail), crocheted from plastic bags and found plastic refuse.

Photo © Institute For Figuring by Christina Simons
Reef sculpture against intense blue background

Coral Forest – Ea, crocheted from plastic bags and plastic refuse. Photographed under professional aquarium lights at Lehigh University Art Galleries.

Photo © Institute For Figuring.
Reef sculture with wall text in the background, which reads:

Coral Forest – Stheno, at Museum of Arts and Design (NYC). Work from the collection of Jorian Polis Schutz.

Photo by Jenna Bascom for MAD.
A couple among reef sculptures in a gallery

Coral Forest at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz. Exhibition curated by the UCSC Institute for the Arts and Sciences.

Photo courtesy IAS, UCSC.
coral sculpture with tentacles out the top

Coral Forest – Eryali at Lehigh University Art Galleries.

Photo by Stephanie Veto for LUAG.
Reef sculpture in gallery with the walltext:

Coral Forest – Medusa at Lehigh University Art Galleries.

Photo by Stephanie Veto for LUAG.
Reef sculptures in glass vitrines in gallery

Pod Worlds at Museum of Art and Design (NYC).

Photo by Jenna Bascom for MAD.

Pod World – Plastic Fantastic, featuring corals crocheted around found plastic water bottles by Nadia Severns, at Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz.

Photo courtesy Institute for the Arts and Sciences, UCSC.
Chalkboard with drawings and writing explaining the difference between Euclidean and hyperbolic space

Mathematics Blackboard, at the 2019 Venice Biennale.

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Early crochet corals by Margaret and Christine Wertheim.

Photo © Institute For Figuring by Alyssa Gorelick.