From Sept 1, 2007 - Dec 30, 2007
Internationally recognized for her massive carved cedar sculpture, Ursula von Rydingsvard creates a dialogue between intimate gesture and architecture in the highly articulated and complex surfaces of her work.
The first exhibition in the Pacific Northwest of this German-born, New York-based artist's work, the Museum presents a major sculpture, Pod Pach?, and a series of dynamic new drawings completed during the artist's Italian residency as a recipient of a 2007 Rome Prize. This exhibition is the first time the artist has shown her drawings.
A mechanized work, Pod Pach is in a continuous state of motion as it lifts and settles in a gesture that suggests a human back bending. Hand-carved and rubbed with pigments to create an interplay of light and shadow, the room-sized work stands off the floor on a dozen legs that both acknowledge and deny its great weight and serve to further animate its sense of being. Pod Pach? is both temporal and timeless in its swelling impermeable cedar mass and complex flickering surfaces.
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