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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This figure feels alive. His uncoordinated muscles are<br />
well rendered in the slightly off-balanced posture as is<br />
his minute head roll. The doughy build of his body and<br />
love-handles at his hips and buttocks gives us a sense of<br />
his weight.<br />
The scale of the figure is surprising and not often seen<br />
in folk art ceramics. The terracotta medium and the<br />
stock paver form upon which the baby sits suggests that<br />
the builder worked at a commercial ceramic factory. The<br />
insight of building technique, proper drying time before<br />
firing and access to a sizable kiln would also support<br />
this theory.<br />
Terracotta Toddler (back)<br />
Architectural earthenware<br />
Circa: 1920<br />
Size: 12” (w) x 15” (d) x 24” (h)
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