Selections from the Exhibition

Le Serpent qui a Mangé Mon Coeur (The Snake that Ate My Heart), 2007, poplar, milk paint, steel (detail below)



Tributaries: Sylvie Rosenthal

July 17 - August 23, 2009

Using familiar forms such as birds and animals, Rosenthal mines what she calls “the everydayness of the human condition” for evidence of the slow, continual process of personal transformation. Humor and quiet poetry are coupled with a devotion to fine craft to produce a body of work that is both engaging and beautiful.

About her work, the artist says “I am inspired by passing cars, hard times, good feelings, dish washers and other angels, tight rope walkers, and feelings that are so deep down that you are not sure if they are yours or if you are supposed to have them all.”

(left image: There is no part of me that is not mortal, steel, 2006)


For more information about the artist, click here.



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