Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz, transformative fiber artist and longtime Drexel adjunct professor, has died at 94.
with Philly Stewards, “allows me to explore these ideas in a dynamic and kinetic manner, through the illumination of the material and the way it moves.”
Inquirer art critic Edward J. Sozanski reviewed her work at a 1994 exhibit at the Philadelphia Art Alliance and said: “Bobrowicz’s sculptures transform simple materials into sculptures that express mass with extreme delicacy. Her segment of the show is perhaps the most enchanting despite her economy of means.”
Her flowing creations, some nearly 10 feet long and embellished with gold leaf, are often suspended and have been shown locally and around the world in dozens of solo and group exhibitions.
She studied with the famed textile artist Anni Albers at the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art, now the University of the Arts, in the 1950s, collaborated with iconic Philadelphia architects Louis Kahn and Anne Tyng in the 1970s, and her “Cosmic Series” collection opened a new Gravers Lane Gallery on Walnut Street in May.
Inquirer art critic Victoria Donohoe called Ms. Bobrowicz’s work “compelling in its illusionism” in 1984 and noted in a review of a 2002 exhibit that “even the slightest air current will set off a diffused stir of motion, meant to suggest the constant motion, change and growth in the universe. ... Such a sculptural piece finds its place as a true work of art.”Ms.
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