All in Sculpture
Haimi Feniche’s piece, Swarm, is made up of 12,000 life-size porcelain snails: 5,000 on each of the poles and 2,000 to spare. They were manually cast by Fenichel one-by-one, then fired, painted, and fired again. Together they constitute a unity, sort of a one-hive mind that is even more precious because of the attention to detail paid by the artist to each of its little members.
This is the first of three blog posts dedicated to Rachel Dein's enchanting bas reliefs in plaster and concrete.
Leslie Fry won the commission for eight custom sculptures for the mezzanine of the newly opened and freshly renovated Freehand Hotel in NYC. Her cast and sculpted plaster pieces are inspired by the iconic architecture of New York.
Katia Rabey describes Haimi Fenichel’s piece “Brick Wall #3” and explores his ingenious process of creating hollow concrete castings.
It has not escaped our notice in recent weeks that bronze has taken an unlikely position on center stage in the national conversation. Some in America would like to take down and/or relocate Confederate monuments and others want these statues to maintain their place in the public square. This long-simmering debate boiled over in the most painful way with the events in Charlottesville, VA, with a rally called "Unite the Right."
