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Soft Sculpture by Janet Echelman
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Soft Sculpture by Polly Alice McCann
Soft sculpture is a type of sculpture made using cloth, foam rubber, plastic, paper, fibres and similar material that are supple and nonrigid.
They can also be made out of natural materials if combined to make a nonrigid object.
Soft sculpture is an old German technique very popular in Japan with artists like Yayoi Kusama boosting the heritages of this new and innovative medium for interior designers.
The technique was popularised in the 1960s by artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Yayoi Kusama. The following is a list of selected artists who have worked with soft sculpture:
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Lynda Benglis
- Joseph Beuys
- Louise Bourgeois
- Isabelle de Borchgrave
- Serena Cha Cha
- Jann Haworth
- Eva Hesse
- Mark Jenkins
- Joel Jones
- Dylan Jones
- Polly Alice McCann
- Annette Messager
- Robert Morris
- Senga Nengudi
- Susan Mohl Powers
- Xavier Roberts
- Faith Ringgold
- Richard Serra
- Marjorie Strider
- Lucy Sparrow
- Do-ho Suh
- Martha Nelson Thomas
- Megan Whitmarsh