Deb McCunn
Ruth Bunny ginsburg
My Heroes wear Lace(s)
Ruth Bunny Ginsburg Stands Her Ground, 22"x20"x20", $2,000 SOLD
My Heroes wear Lace(s)
My Heroes wear Lace(s)
My Heroes Wear Lace(s), 34"x45"x22", $7,000
This piece features Ruth Bunny Ginsburg, Kamala Hare-is and a youngster looking on inspired. The single cotton thread connecting them is a micro-crocheted cotton strand starting as a jabot and evolving into a strong shoe lace. Book pedestals representing their accumulated knowledge were designed and crafted by Mike Johnston. SOLD
Hanging Sloth
Hanging Sloth, 17"x9"x5" SOLD
Story Boats
Deb uses boats as vessels to hold little stories. This piece is "Cynthia wore her pearls, even while social distancing" 7"x20.5"x7.5"
Animal Heads
Deb has created a variety of humane trophy heads celebrating the nature of goats, sheep, wolves, rabbits, sea otters and more. These animal heads range from $195 to $350 and are available at Good Earth Pottery & Gallery in Fairhaven, WA, Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park on Camano Island, WA, Confluence Gallery in Twisp, WA and Walking Man Gallery in Whitefish , MT.
Electrolux Girls
Touch no dirt, smell no dirt, see no dirt, available at Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park on Camano Island, WA.
Pawns
The pawns decided to change the rules. SOLD
Identity Cleavage
Identity Cleavage is a series of 3 ft tall rabbits dressed as housewives inspired by the competing pressures placed on women in the 1940s and 1950s to be perfect housewives at the same time the image of the playboy bunny was growing as a symbol of sensual desire. These are outdoor garden sculptures.
Finley
Finley
Finley, 8"x17"x5", SOLD
Artist's Statement
artist's statement
Curiosity gives us vitality, allowing us to stretch and grow. Sculpting in clay is my vehicle for challenging existing and historic cultural assumptions. The richness and versatility of the medium allow me to carve details throughout my work, layering symbols, stories and thought-provoking questions. I started sculpting as a teenager, spent years working in the male dominated world of bank management from 1985 to 2003 before returning to art full time. My work tells personal stories, often with humor, and aspires to engage others in conversations about identity and choices.
In 1869, John Stuart Mills and his wife Harriet developed the ideas presented in The Subjection of Women. One argument in this text is that women have been coaxed, cajoled and pressured to be so many different things to different people, that women have become unknowable. Because of my personal experience in the corporate world, this resonates. Women proved themselves supremely capable in various jobs during World War II only to find themselves back in the kitchen at the end of the war. Since the 1950s, a scantily clad woman dressed in rabbit ears has been an iconic image of sensual desire. Appliances and gadgets made in the 1950s were sold using advertisements with gleeful women appearing completely fulfilled serving others. These images of women often seem absurd. During my time in banking, I was a loan officer, branch manager and then a senior division manager. When I was successful, my male peers joked it was only because I shortened my skirt. If I wanted to be part of the decision making, I had to smoke cigars, drink Scotch and hang out on the golf course where the real decisions were made. In those days, taking time off to attend a parent-teacher conference was unthinkable. Looking back at earlier generations, I'm grateful for the opportunity to pursue a career even with the many internal conflicts it created, but I believe change is crucial if our society is to grow. I hope my work will open a dialogue about what it means to be feminine, the roles women choose to accept along with the consequences of those roles and lead to future generations of women having more choices and less internal conflict about identity.