Tag: mermaid

Kathy Ruttenberg at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art

Kathy Ruttenberg’s signature human/animal hybrids debuted on New York City streets this winter as large-scale sculptures in the Broadway malls project, a public art project located between 64th and 157th Streets on Broadway.  This macquette for a sculpture on 157th Street, currently on view at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, brings her storytelling back to an intimate scale as a human-bodied stag pursues a quixotic romance with a confined mermaid.  (On view on 57th Street at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art through March 8th).

Kathy Ruttenberg, Fishbowl Maquette, ceramic, acrylic, wood, plaster, 20 x 24 x 26 inches, 2016/18.

Wangechi Mutu at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu’s hybrid bodies enter a new chapter in her latest solo show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, where this bronze mermaid merges animal and human. The reference taps into E. African folktales of dugongs – a manatee-like creature – manifesting as female sirens who’d lure men into the sea. (In Chelsea on 21st Street through March 25th).

Wangechi Mutu, installation view of ‘Ndoro Na Miti,’ at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, February, 2017.