Ohio River Faucet, 1981
Baltic Birch, Plexiglass, 14" x 16" x 23"
Amy Musia was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1950. After graduating from North Texas State University, she moved to Evansville, Indiana, where she continued her art instruction in wood sculpture. Since the early 1980s she has maintained Lone Star Studio. Her sculptures and drawings have been exhibited throughout the United States and are included in collections such as North Texas University, Evansville Museum of Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Musia is best known for her imaginative and humorous wood-and-Plexiglas sculptures of water faucets. Another series features large-scale mixed-media versions of fishing flies.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.