Paola Pivi at Perrotin Gallery

The word for Italian born, Alaska-based artist Paola Pivi’s installation of multi-colored, feathered baby bears at Perrotin Gallery on the Lower East Side is ‘cute.’  Explaining that the installation was inspired by her adopted son’s “energy, life and positivity,” Pivi developed a series of bears playfully fighting, doing acrobatics and generally looking to inspire ‘awwwws.’  (On view through June 8th).

Paola Pivi, installation view of ‘We Are the Baby Gang’ at Perrotin Gallery, April 2019.