BELLEVUE,

WA.- For almost forty
years, world-renowned jewelry artist Arline Fisch has rarely created
anything
but jewelry. Creatures from the Deep, originally commissioned by Racine
Art
Museum in 2008, challenged the artist to bring her work to a grand
scale, using
knitting and crocheting techniques to create ‘families’ of jellyfish out
of her
signature color-coated copper wire. Each of Fisch’s
‘families’ in the
installation varies dramatically in form and color, suggesting different
species
of jellies. Suspended in air and swaying together in the galleries, they

submerse visitors in a captivating and otherworldly undersea
environment. A
series of corals and sea anemones rest below, all fabricated in the same
very
small gauge of wire.  On view through 11
October.