Julie Schenkelberg’s sculpture ‘Dowry, Rediscovered,’ a wooden bench sliced open to reveal crockery-stuffed cushions, has the feeling of a long hidden secret suddenly brought to light or a wondrous intrusion of nature – the plates look like fungus – on a man-made object. (At Chelsea’s Asya Geisberg Gallery through April 20th.)
Julie Schenkelberg, ‘Dowry, Rediscovered,’ wooden bench, dishes, acrylic gel, 2012.
