Yvette Dede & Hiroko Inoue

USA and Osaka, Japan

A Chameleon Meadow-In Praise of Shadows, 2007 

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YVETTE DEDE

Yvette Dede attended Louisiana State University from 1979-1983 where she received a Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts and her Master’s degree of Fine Arts from Vermont College. She later attended Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina, as well as Pilchuck School of Glass in Seattle, Washington. She moved to Charleston, South Carolina in 1991, and she is now a professor of Fine Arts at The College of Charleston specializing in drawing techniques. Dede has received numerous grants from institutions around the country in regards to her sculptures involving organic materials. In 2007, she teamed up with Hiroko Inoue to produce a nature-based sculpture entitled A Chameleon Meadow – In Praise of Shadows in the South Carolina Botanical Garden in Clemson, South Carolina.

You can visit her website here.

Dede Artist Statement

 

 

 

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HIROKO INOUE

Hiroko Inoue was born in Osaka, Japan. She studied textile dyeing in Okinawa, Japan for two years beginning in 1974. She utilizes various spaces to erect her works, from abandoned medical institutions to regular residences. Since 1999, she has begun exhibiting her work mainly in German districts. In 2007, as a lecturer at Clemson University, Inoue partnered with Yvette Dede of Charleston, South Carolina, to produce a nature-based sculpture for the South Carolina Botanical Garden entitled A Chameleon Meadow – In Praise of Shadows. Inoue has served as Special Advisor for Cultureal Exchange of Japan’s Governmental Agency of Cultural Affairs (2007), as well as on the Japanese-Austrian Committee for the 21st Century (2007).

You can visit her website here.

Inoue Artist Statement

 

 

 

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