Kathy Ruttenberg “Fired Ice: Works from the Ends of the Earth”
57 STUX + HALLER Gallery
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Stux Gallery presents their third solo exhibition of sculptures and works on paper by Kathy Ruttenberg produced in less than three years. At mid-career, Ruttenberg is possibly the foremost sculptor working in ceramic today, bringing clay to incredible forms of life, both physical and emotional, forever frozen in their most intensely heated state. In their complexity and scale her recent works are tours-de-force, not merely of manual artistry, but Baroque nature poetry in the spirit of the most fantastical sculptures by Cellini, Palissy or even Bernini. Indeed, according to Roberta Smith’s New York Times review of Ruttenberg’s May 2013 show, the artist is “a force to contend with as a narrator and symbolist”. The vibrant folk art overtones in her works aside, they resonate as much with those by Symbolist masters like Redon, Gauguin and Rousseau, as they do with such contemporary fantasy artists as Kiki Smith, Jeff Koons and Robert Gober.
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from September 17, 2014 to October 25, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-17 from 17:00 to 20:00