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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Important African American<br />
Folk Art Carved Cane<br />
Circa: 1881<br />
Size: 36" (oah)<br />
This spirited carving is not<br />
only remarkable for its’<br />
prodigious carvings, it is<br />
the inspired, non-formulaic<br />
execution that makes<br />
it exceptional.<br />
The forty or so carvings<br />
feature; a large capuchin<br />
monkey at the top with a<br />
turtle fetish set into it<br />
(under glass). What follows<br />
is a whole lot of carving;<br />
clusters of shore<br />
birds, 16 or so African<br />
American male heads, a<br />
few snakes, an elephant, a<br />
few dogs, etc.<br />
The male heads all appear<br />
to be African American<br />
which would point to the<br />
race of its carver. The cane<br />
is signed and dated, “BY<br />
TG 1881.”
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