Artist: Kristen Newell (American, 21st Century)
Medium: Glazed stoneware and beeswax
Signature: Signed and dated
Dimensions:
48 x 25.5 x 19.5 inches
Description:
"Rivers feed life, carry news, forge paths, swell and flood the landscape; they are peaceful, violent, and essential. There are rivers of the underworld, Tao, flow, lineage. I was feeling chaotic with news, loss, and the pandemic, I wanted to put those feelings into a grounded figure, allow them some physical weight. The color scheme is intended to suggest a stone figure sitting in a river up to their armpits. The river flowing around them represents the chaos and the salve. The gesture is of still observation, the plant is the fruit, the growth, it brings life to the piece and requires water." - Kristen Newell
Type of Work: Sculpture
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Four Three Two One, 2015 Kristen Newell
One Who Flew Out the Window, 2015 Kristen Newell
Beast of the Apocalypse, 2019 Kristen Newell
The Tower, 2019 Kristen Newell
Husk, 2020 Kristen Newell
Venus with Koalas in Her Hair, 2020 Kristen Newell
Man Descending, 2020 Kristen Newell
Woman with Sword, 2021 Kristen Newell
Process I, 2021 Kristen Newell
Persephone Descending, 2021 Kristen Newell
Tempering, 2021 Kristen Newell
Sanctuary, 2021 Kristen Newell