NYAB Event - Elizabeth King “Compass”

Elizabeth King “Compass”

Danese Corey

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“I am a sculptor,” King resolutely declares. This is more than evident in her precisely rendered, clearly observed cast bronze and porcelain heads, most of which are self-portraits rendered at half-scale. King, shy on the subject, has paraphrased artist Adrian Piper: Just because my work is autobiographical doesn’t mean it’s about me. Her “self” portraits are universally us.

The exhibition also includes sculpture installations that combine precisely movable figurative elements with stop-frame animation, blurring the boundary between actual and virtual object. Compass, the title of both the exhibition and a specific work, refers to the arc and range of King’s work over time, but also to the instrument by which one searches for direction – for the essence of self and that which is at the core of being. A compass is an object that even in its static state never truly stops moving – everything vibrates, everything trembles. I love the visceral evidence of impermanence, not in the object itself, but in its pose at any given moment.”