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MARY JO
BOLE

Bole’s sepulchral works poignantly address the theme
of human mortality and the struggle between permanence
and impermanence.

Mary Jo Bole, Granny’s Necklace, 1997–2000, mosaic,
bronze, and wood, 17 x 56 x 41 1/2 in.

Robert Arneson, Joint (study for Sarcophagus), 1984,
pastel and oil stick on paper, 73 1/2 x 90 in.

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