Olga de Amaral is a Colombian textile artist, born in 1932, known for large woven works incorporating gold leaf, horsehair and other unconventional materials alongside fiber, combining pre-Columbian textile traditions with abstraction. She trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan before returning to Colombia, and her work has since been exhibited internationally and is held in major museum collections.
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Olga de Amaral (born 1932) is a Colombian textile and visual artist known for her large-scale abstract works made with fibers and covered in gold and/or silver leaf.
Early life
In 1955, after a year in Cranbrook, she returned to Colombia and started to make decorative textiles on commission for architects.
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From 1954 to 1955, she studied fiber art at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
In Group: Contemporary and Conceptual Fiber Artists, Lead
She was one of the few artists from South America internationally known for her work in fiber art during the 1960s and 1970s.
Practices: Textile Arts, Lead
is a Colombian textile and visual artist
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