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.
I can pass up sharing a thirty inch piece she calls a “Figurehead.”
It’s splendid.
Here’s another from her Facebook page:
Nice palate cleanser for this blog.
Better take them down though, before they go missing.