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These seven totemic forms entitled Sweet Charity (2026) represent the culmination of Carol Bove’s “collage sculptures,“ a body of work that has occupied a central place in her practice for the past decade. Conceived for this double-height gallery, the soaring sculptures entwine steel construction tubing with elongated shards of industrial steel plate.
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This intricately pattern painting, Blue Burst Fan (1979), playfully brings together the traditions of decorative and fine arts. Miriam Shapiro (1923 – 2015) cultivated this approach as a key figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement, drawing on myriad textiles ranging from those related to her Russian Jewish heritage to Japanese Kimonos.
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Sweeping abstract flows of paint drench torsos and limbs in Illana Savdie’s Cow (2023), sowing perceptual confusion. The effect on the viewer is placelessness and near-disorientation, which the artist uses to disrupt power dynamics. She allows multiple cultural, contexts and inheritances to simultaneously smash into and balance one another, resulting in entirely new formations. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Cow By Illana Savdie
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Swiss-born, New York–based artist Ugo Rondinone has long been known for creating works that blur the line between the natural and the spiritual, the playful and the profound. His recent small sculpture, blue pink nun (2025), is part of his ongoing Nuns + Monks series — a body of work that distills human form into cloaked, meditative figures rendered in stone and painted in bold, unexpected color combinations.
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Abstract, geometric representations of colorful flowers from the rose and carnation families exemplify an interest in floral and decorative patterns in Beatriz Milhazes’ painting, The Carnation and The Rose (2000). The large circular flower in the background is inspired by the delicate lacelike designs of crochet cloths she saw in her grandmother’s home as a child.
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