Elizabeth Catlett Exhibition
June Kelly Gallery
This event has ended.
Sculptor Elizabeth Catlett at 94 is still making important art, and as she continues to carve out her place in art history, crating sculptures, in wood, marble, onyx and bronze.
Early in her career, Catlett won her first prize in sculpture, a limestone Mother and Child, at the 1940 American Negro Exposition in Chicago. That figurative icon was an early representation of the distinctive vision and sculptural idiom that she has maintained throughout her career.
Although Catlett’s work celebrates African-American identity, it is the female form to which she most often pays homage, endowing it with dignity, strength and sensuality, and frequently with maternal compassion and tenderness.
Catlett moves between figurative and expressionist and abstract forms in her work. Torso, in mahogany, for example, is clearly a female figure, while Mask, in orange onyx, is an abstract tour de force. The exhibition in its entirety reflects her nearly seven decades of sensitivity toward the beauty and sensuality she finds in the human form and toward her materials.
[Image: Elizabeth CatlettTorso "Beatrice" (2008) Mahogany, 21 x 11¾ x 11½ in.]
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Schedule
from April 03, 2009 to May 02, 2009