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Lot 321W

Lapidary Wall Art and Matching Framed Quilt--"Los Angeles Stratigraphy"

7 December 2016, 10:00 PST
Los Angeles

Sold for US$6,250 inc. premium

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Lapidary Wall Art and Matching Framed Quilt--"Los Angeles Stratigraphy"

"Los Angeles Stratigraphy" is a stone and fabric diptych that shows the exciting tectonic history of the Los Angeles basin. Faulting, sedimentary layers, weathering profile, and representative fossils (including California's state fossil, the Smilodon) unfold in an artistic intarsia.

Two Colorado artists with backgrounds in geology created this masterful set. Susan Judy built the left half with inlaid stone and Neffra Matthews mirrored the stone with matching quilted fabric on the right side. The unexpected juxtaposition of these materials is both startling and captivating.

The stone mosaic is composed of marble, sandstone, limestone, onyx, amazonite, quartzite, aventurine, slate, granite, and metasomatite. Fossils are sandblasted in the stone and embroidered in the fabric. The fabric is hand dyed batik with custom quilted stitched geologic symbols. Measuring 42 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/2 in (107 x 36 x 3cm) (2)

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Susan Judy is a stone mosaic artist with a background in exploration geology. Her art combines techniques of opus sectile mosaic with relief. The process includes cutting polishing, sanding, and arranging a variety of semi-precious gems, crystals, fossils and other stone into abstract and geologic images. The geologic art includes stone geologic maps, stratigraphic columns, primordial landscapes and structural images.

Neffra Matthews is a fiber artist with a background in geology and 3D imaging. Her art focuses on using color and texture, created by hand dyed fabric and custom designed stitching, to interpret the wonders of the natural world. Neffra utilizes thread, fabric and color to express her scientific knowledge and depict it artistically, to engage the viewer on multiple levels, and to share an appreciation of science and art in our natural world with a larger audience.


Accompanied by two framed explanations of the Los Angeles Basin Stratigraphy description the Precambrian, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary and Quarternary layers as well as a description of the oil fields of the Los Angeles Basin.

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