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Crocheted Olek (born 5 April 1978,〔 full name Agata Oleksiak, and also known as Olek) is a Polish-born artist living in the United States. Her works include sculptures, installations such as crocheted bicycles, inflatables, and fiber art. Her best known piece is a false apartment in which the contents, including the residents, were covered in crocheting. It was featured in various international media outlets.〔; ; 〕 The work generally includes members of the public or the media, crocheted directly into the suit without traditional fasteners. Crocheted Olek had exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, France, Italy, Poland, and Costa Rica.〔"(Olek )", professional resume. Retrieved 7 June 2011.〕 ==Early life and career== Oleksiak graduated with a degree in Cultural Studies from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, from 1997 to 2000.〔 Attending LaGuardia College, she won the National Arts Club's award for sculpture. Her early work included sculptures, costumes, and inflatables. Oleksiak first used crocheting as part of her art in 2003 after moving to the United States. She "wowed critics" at the Williamsburg Arts and Historical Society Surrealist Fashion Show that year. In 2004, Oleksiak created "a large tentlike piece made of crocheted strips of cloth, hair, cassette tape and stuffed animals" work for a four-person show. ''The New York Times'' said this work gave the show at 5BE Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, "a tour-de-force center to work around." Her crocheted sculpture "Spill" (2005), featured in the ''Washington Post'', included 1,300 skinny white balloons cascading in an "intestinal shape". She participated in The Waterways, a "socially conscious" art project on a ''vaporetto'' water bus during the 2005 Venice Biennale; her work, called "Camouflage", "exploring the androgyny of fixed identity, sexuality, and culture". In September and October of that year, Olek crocheted the windows of a burned-out, abandoned building near her artist residency in Utica, New York.〔 During this period, her costumes for theatre and dance performances drew critical praise, although a dance performance relating to one of her sculptures was criticized. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crocheted Olek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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