A sculpture by Barbara Chase - Riboud, whose bronze and
fabric steles are on view at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York this fall, is divided horizontally, with a fabric skirt seeming to bear the enormous weight of a bronze torso.
Not exact matches
Barbara Chase - Riboud makes it hard to say whether one is dealing with Pop Art or abstraction, in a
stele sculpted as if draped in black
fabric.
Other
steles take
fabric as their subject as well as material, with a majestic robe for Chairman Mao or the stripes of a golden flag.
Chase - Riboud shares her dark mysteries with white artists herself, like the
steles and Surrealism of Louise Nevelson or the craft and knotted
fabric of Sheila Hicks — and she has lived in France for much of her career while casting bronze in Italy.