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Artist's
Statement
My sculpture speaks to the eternal connection between
human existence and nature. It is not concerned with social
statement or contemporary attitude. Rather, it attempts to
convey the inherent balance found within organic abstraction
and resolved line and form. My objective is to create a body
of work that both pleases the eye and nourishes the soul.
My
preoccupation with the shape of things began in earliest childhood.
Traveling extensively, I collected memories of both manmade
and natural forms. Primitive figures, wave-polished stones
and deep-chambered shells are among the various basic and
fundamental shapes that inspire my work.
For
me, the process of making sculpture is a personal exploration
into obdurate mass to find those elemental forms I collected
as a child. My approach is both intuitive and reductive. I
remove mass to reveal form. Though my preferred medium is
stone, even when I work on plaster maquettes for casting in
bronze, I prefer to take away rather than add.
My
sculptures are monolithic volumes of mass defined by rounded
surfaces that are clean and free of descriptive detail. Light
interacts with these surfaces, defining and clarifying them
to reveal their hidden mysteries. Recurrent themes are the
spiral, the shell, the helix and the reclining figure. Almost
all my stone sculptures are cast in bronze. The transition
from stone to bronze creates new surface details which must
be resolved in order to retain the intent of the original
work. In The Shape of Time, my father could have been
describing my work when he wrote "...a work of art, which
is a complex of many stages and levels of crisscrossed intentions,
is always intrinsically complicated, however simple its effect
may seem."
Selected
Biography
Exhibitions
2000 Art of the Northeast 2000, Silvermine Guild Arts Center,
New Canaan, CT, Award; The Amidor Memorial Award for
Stone Sculpture
2000 Connecticut Women Artists, Inc., University of Hartford,
CT
1999 Qualita Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV; Curator: Nancy Hoffman
1998 Abigail Adams Smith Museum, New York, NY; Designer: Albert
Hadley
1998 Quietude Garden Gallery, East Brunswick, NJ
1997 The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT; "The Five Winners"
Annual Exhibition
1997 Artspace- New Work '97, New Haven, CT; Curator: Marian
Griffith
1996 Recent Work by Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh, Parish-Hadley
Associates, New York, NY
1996 The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT, Award; Best
Sculpture
1996 Connecticut Women Artists Inc., New Haven CT
1996 Southport Garden Festival, Southport, CT; Designer: Albert
Hadley
1995 Five From Connecticut, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk,
CT
1995 Sanctuary Audubon Birdcraft Museum, Fairfield, CT
1994 Connecticut Women Artists Inc., New Haven, CT
1993 Connecticut Women Artists Inc., New Haven CT
1992 22nd Annual Art Competition, Stamford Museum and Nature
Center, Stamford, CT
1991 Art Asia, Hong Kong Convention Center; Gallery: New Art
Centre, London
Selected
Private Collections
Barry and Carole Foreman, Potomac, MD
Albert Hadley, New York, NY
William and Judy Holding, Darien, CT
Lynelle Jones, Norwalk, CT
Elizabeth Kubler, Hamden, CT
Richard and Kathy Leventhal, Tenafly, NJ
Herman and Sue Merinoff, Lake Success, NY
Alexandra Merrill, St. George, ME
Alec and Drika Purves, New Haven, CT
Clint and Susan Rodenberg, New York, NY
lvy Rosequist, San Francisco, CA
Larry and Camille Ruvo, Las Vegas, NV
Deborah Tobin, Guilford, CT
Robert and Barbara Wells, Darien, CT
Christiaan Wernink, Ithaca, NY
Guusje Wernink, New Canaan, CT
Nisha Zenoff, Menlo Park, CA
Selected
Commissions
Kirshenbaum Bond & Partakers New York, NY
Lancaster Vineyards, Healdsburg, CA
Richard and Kathy Leventhal, Tenafly, NJ
Long Wharf Theater, New Haven, CT
Annual Mary Hunter Wolf Award
Bibliography
Who's Who of American Women 2000
The Norwalk Hour, 5/11/00, Betty Tyler
Art New England, January 1998, Michael Rush
New Haven Advocate, 11/13/97, Hank Hoffman
Darien News-Review, 7/31/97, Karri Williams
The Norwalk Hour, 9/5/97, Barbara Bangster
Architectural Digest, September 1996
Westport Minuteman, 3/7/96
Westport News, 7/10/96
Fairfield Citizen-News, 7/19/96
The New York Times, 9/24/95, Vivian Raynor
Wilton News, 9/16/95, Louise Lancaster-Keim
Connecticut Post, 9/24/95, Phyllls A.S. Boros
Fairfield Citizen-News, 11/25/95, Nancy Lilley
Greenwich News, 10/8/92
Darien News-Review, 11/21/91
Education
B.A. History of Art, Barnard College, NY
M.A. Art and Education, Columbia University, NY
Anderson Ranch Center, Aspen, CO
Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
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