Figureheads

My New York City niece Sarah Peters got this May 22nd write-up by reviewer Will Heinrich in New Yorker magazine:

Sarah Peters

A dozen charming talismanic bronzes—of satyrs, shadow puppets, and female figurines—by the New York sculptor line the entrance to her show and offer a taste of her cross-cultural remixing.

But her tantalizingly synthetic vision really hits home in the six large, brass-colored bronzes in the main room, which compress millennia of sculptural modes, from ancient Egyptian to Greco-Roman to Constantin Brancusi.

Stylized heads sport cascades of wavy hair and full beards, which double as their own pedestals.

Note the finely modelled curls of “Charioteer,” a female bust with empty eye sockets; they assume the role of coiffure on the top of her head, but suggest wheels at the sculpture’s base.

The artist’s exhibition at 195 Chrystie is extended to June 16.

A figurehead by Sarah Peters

I can pass up sharing a thirty inch piece she calls a “Figurehead.”

It’s splendid.

Here’s another from her Facebook page:


I look at it and ask myself, “How does she do it?”


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Figureheads — 1 Comment

  1. Nice palate cleanser for this blog.

    Better take them down though, before they go missing.

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