SMALL FACES UNBOUND
SMALL FACES UNBOUND The title of this collection comes from the lyric in, The Byrds’ song, “Eight Miles High.” This ripe phrase evokes a range of fantastic imagery; uninhibited children, shrunken heads, unencumbered puppets and marvelous dismemberment to name a few things that popped into my head. Rather than discovering hidden faces or seeing them in inanimate objects (pareidolia), we focused on indelible visages—stark, psychological and philosophical—existential and mythological, some animal, some mysterious and some absurd. January 19-22, 2017. Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 1001. Additional show information: stevenspowers.com
SMALL FACES UNBOUND
The title of this collection comes from the lyric in, The Byrds’ song, “Eight Miles High.” This ripe phrase evokes a range of fantastic imagery; uninhibited children, shrunken heads, unencumbered puppets and marvelous dismemberment to name a few things that popped into my head.
Rather than discovering hidden faces or seeing them in inanimate objects (pareidolia), we focused on indelible visages—stark, psychological and philosophical—existential and mythological, some animal, some mysterious and some absurd.
January 19-22, 2017.
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 1001. Additional show information: stevenspowers.com
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Carnival Knockdowns<br />
New England<br />
Carved wood, polychrome, animal hair, movable eyes<br />
Circa: 1900-1920<br />
Size: 19" (h) x 7 1/2" (w) each<br />
Provenance: Ricco/Maresca, Marvill Collection<br />
Pictured and discussed in American Vernacular, page 91.<br />
Two sets of three large and expressionistically painted knockdowns—each<br />
with a brutal personality. They have the palette<br />
and line quality of early Jackson Pollock, à la “The She Wolf.”<br />
The She Wolf / Jackson Pollock<br />
Oil on canvas / 1943<br />
Museum of Modern Art
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