NYAB Event - Tip Toland "Return"

Tip Toland "Return"

Barry Friedman Ltd.

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The characters in Tip Toland’s ceramic sculptures are fragile creatures, at different stages in life. Each figure is at least partly autobiographical, embodying an aspect of Toland that has “inched its way to the foreground of my awareness and is ready to become fleshed out”. Sometimes nude, they are stripped of social context and share a similar vulnerability, isolation, and innocence. They are studies of the human psyche articulated through realistic characters, conveying states of being and common traits of the human condition, some of which the viewer may recognize in himself or herself. Moments of awareness, pleasure, serenity, pain, angst, insecurity, and desire are depicted in a hyper-realistic and surrealistic manner.