FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Virgil Marti Green Winter
Helen Sadler
February 25 to April 1, 2006
Elizabeth Dee is pleased to announce exhibitions of new
work by Virgil Marti and Helen Sadler in the gallery at
545 West 20th Street. A reception for the artists
will be held on Saturday, February 25th, from six to eight
pm.
Virgil Marti covers the walls and
ceiling of the Main Gallery with plaster sculptures of
large flowers and other motifs. Half-chrome mirrored bulbs set
in the reliefs reposition the decorative as functional,
at the same time they cast a light back onto the sculptures
that reveals them to be composed entirely of human bones. Skulls,
scapulae, clavicles, coccyxes, patellae, femurs, tibiae,
and other bones cast in plaster make up the flora, fauna,
and snowflakes of the design. The initial impression
of an all-over room treatment yields to the slightly macabre
knowledge that the decorations comprise intricate patterns
formed of the repeated parts of reconfigured skeletons,
punctuated by the artist's signature translucent flowers
in brightly colored resin.
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