Jose Augustin Fumero Mosaic Woven Fiber Framed Art Signed Mother And Child

Description

“Flower Garden - Mother and Child”.
Original Jose Augustin Fumero Mosaic Woven Fiber Framed Art. Signed By Artist with title on back of frame. A beautiful piece of art in gold toned matted frame. Measures 10” x 12” including frame. The actual image measures 6” x 8”.
The last photo shows a piece from this same artist, that sold in December.
Explaining the style of works like Saint Harley of Davidson, immigrant to North Carolina José Augustín Fumero once said that “My work is called woven fiber mosaics. I find that working with a woven grid, an image can be seen through many facets. … I think and create on many levels, combining the [vertical] warp (used as a platform for the beginning expression of an idea) and the [horizontal] weft (used to expand the ramifications of the original expression) to create a complete piece.” To create Saint Harley of Davidson, Fumero imagined a Medieval-sounding fable that concludes, “This ends the legend of St. Harley of Davidson, a legend expressing the knowledge of being able to perceive and sense the peace of freedom.”
Born in Havana, Cuba, Fumero emigrated from Cuba with his family just before his fifth birthday. They did not speak English, so he became the family translator, after learning the language from movies. He graduated from City College of New York (CUNY) and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York in the 1940s, and went on to work with Collins & Aikman, in Albemarle, NC, where he designed jacquard upholstery fabrics for cars and airplanes. Fumero’s pre-computer training in designing jacquard fabrics enabled him to visually analyze the structure of any fabric, and many of his art pieces contain weave structures no longer familiar to textile designers using computer-aided design.
In 1956, a mutual friend introduced Fumero and Herb Cohen, a potter and sculptor who at the time was working at hyalyn porcelain co. in Hickory. (The hyalyn name is not capitalized.) The two have been professional collaborators and a personal couple ever since that time. They worked in the 1960s and ’70s at the Mint’s Golden Circle Theatre in Charlotte; and then in 1972 they abandoned well-paying jobs to move to Blowing Rock where they lived until 2010, committing themselves to uncertain lives as artists. Said Fumero, who was 47 when they moved, “It was a hard choice, but we couldn’t do both things [have full-time jobs and do art] at the same time. I had always supported my family – my parents, my sister and her child – and we were very close. Now I had to tell them, ‘The golden goose has died.’ ” In Blowing Rock Fumero and Cohen helped jump-start the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum (BRAHM), even while both continued separate successful careers in their respective artistic expressions.
"Fumero had lost an eye as a teenager and suffered a failed cataract operation on the other eye in his 80's. So he found a new way to paint: he scanned images into Photoshop, magnifying them to examine small portions. He painted these images with digital brushes, then painted them again on canvas with acrylics or oils and handheld brushes, keeping his face a foot from the canvas. ... Fumero says he `can’t see the pieces I’ve painted' anymore, including large, potent swaths of color .... So he is working on that computer in his home studio, trying to create a keyboard that can be operated with one hand by a visually impaired person." (The Charlotte Observer, July 13, 2012) Fumero is pictured below with Herb Cohen (wearing glasses) in 2010, 2012 and 2014.