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Dwyer Kilcollin — Conference Sweater I
Dwyer Kilcollin

Conference Sweater I

2015

Conference Sweater I presents a quietly radical proposition: that the domestic textile, long associated with warmth and utility, can be reconstituted as a luminous object of contemplation. Kilcollin constructs this 2015 work from silica, glass, and quartz held together with UV-resistant resin and suspended before an integrated LED light panel framed by custom bronze hardware. The result is a piece that glows from within, transforming the woven grid of a sweater's familiar geometry into something closer to a stained-glass reliquary. Light passes through the mineral and glass matrix to produce a soft, diffuse illumination that shifts with the viewer's position, ensuring the work is never quite the same twice. Kilcollin, best known for her interlocking ring jewelry that has earned an international following, applies here the same obsessive material intelligence to a larger sculptural register. The choice of a sweater as source form carries deliberate conceptual weight, drawing on associations with domesticity, care, and the handmade, while the industrial and geological materials she employs introduce a productive tension. Quartz and silica evoke deep geological time, bronze hardware signals permanence, and the LED panel anchors the piece firmly in contemporary technology. These competing registers, the intimate and the monumental, the ephemeral and the enduring, coexist without resolution, which is precisely where the work's staying power lies. At 45.1 by 37.8 by 8.9 centimeters, Conference Sweater I is scaled for intimate domestic or private collection settings, where its glow can register fully against a controlled environment. The work is signed and offered through American Contemporary. Collectors acquiring this piece gain not only a formally inventive object but a pivotal example of Kilcollin's sustained inquiry into the material boundaries between adornment, sculpture, and light.

Medium
Silica, glass, quartz, UV- resistant resin, custom bronze hardware, led- light panel
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Dwyer Kilcollin, Conference Sweater I, 2015

Conference Sweater I presents a quietly radical proposition: that the domestic textile, long associated with warmth and utility, can be reconstituted as a luminous object of contemplation. Kilcollin constructs this 2015 work from silica, glass, and quartz held together with UV-resistant resin and suspended before an integrated LED light panel framed by custom bronze hardware. The result is a piece that glows from within, transforming the woven grid of a sweater's familiar geometry into something closer to a stained-glass reliquary. Light passes through the mineral and glass matrix to produce a soft, diffuse illumination that shifts with the viewer's position, ensuring the work is never quite the same twice. Kilcollin, best known for her interlocking ring jewelry that has earned an international following, applies here the same obsessive material intelligence to a larger sculptural register. The choice of a sweater as source form carries deliberate conceptual weight, drawing on associations with domesticity, care, and the handmade, while the industrial and geological materials she employs introduce a productive tension. Quartz and silica evoke deep geological time, bronze hardware signals permanence, and the LED panel anchors the piece firmly in contemporary technology. These competing registers, the intimate and the monumental, the ephemeral and the enduring, coexist without resolution, which is precisely where the work's staying power lies. At 45.1 by 37.8 by 8.9 centimeters, Conference Sweater I is scaled for intimate domestic or private collection settings, where its glow can register fully against a controlled environment. The work is signed and offered through American Contemporary. Collectors acquiring this piece gain not only a formally inventive object but a pivotal example of Kilcollin's sustained inquiry into the material boundaries between adornment, sculpture, and light.

Medium
Silica, glass, quartz, UV- resistant resin, custom bronze hardware, led- light panel
Dimensions
overall: 45.1 x 37.8 x 8.9 cm
Year
2015
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
American Contemporary

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