{"id":12344,"date":"2025-04-18T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12344"},"modified":"2025-06-01T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T15:18:39","slug":"vanessa-german-gumball-there-is-absolutely-no-space-between-body-and-soul-at-kasmin-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/18\/vanessa-german-gumball-there-is-absolutely-no-space-between-body-and-soul-at-kasmin-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"vanessa german, GUMBALL at Kasmin Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two angels visited vanessa german last fall, one sharing a word \u2013 Olmec \u2013 and the other urging the artist to continue to practice the spiritual in her art.\u00a0 The resulting series of monumental head sculptures in &#8220;GUMBALL &#8211; there is absolutely no space between body and soul&#8221; at Chelsea\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasmingallery.com\/exhibitions\/462-vanessa-german-gumballthere-is-absolutely-no-space-between\/\"> Kasmin Gallery<\/a> are extravagantly rich in their ornamentation, masterful in their collage technique and abundant in references to the sacred.\u00a0 Also a writer, german is as generous with her words as her materials and recounts (@vanessalgerman) not only the visitation that inspired the heads but explains that she has developed her work to include energy-bearing stones, stars, words, numbers and animal forms.\u00a0 Here, a head with elaborate decoration and a quilted backing bears a long, poetic list of not just of materials but of concepts on the gallery\u2019s checklist, ending in \u2018have faith.\u2019\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through May 10<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/809a1fc1-1941-a1df-dd5f-9a502809916d.jpg\" width=\"3728\" height=\"4572\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">vanessa german, bring light in through the top of your head, wood, plaster, foam, plaster gauze, sweet kisses, love, gold chain purse, rose quartz butterflies, the sound of horns honking out of the hotel window, cut glass, lucky feet in rose quartz from the window of the eye, have faith. 79 x 51 x 43 inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 4284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/dcc87f7d-7e45-3df6-e11e-f43cafa34d10.jpg\" width=\"4284\" height=\"5712\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">vanessa german, bring light in through the top of your head, wood, plaster, foam, plaster gauze, sweet kisses, love, gold chain purse, rose quartz butterflies, the sound of horns honking out of the hotel window, cut glass, lucky feet in rose quartz from the window of the eye, have faith. 79 x 51 x 43 inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 4284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/c614eabd-2f73-f760-14ea-40453b587e03.jpg\" width=\"4284\" height=\"5712\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">vanessa german, bring light in through the top of your head, wood, plaster, foam, plaster gauze, sweet kisses, love, gold chain purse, rose quartz butterflies, the sound of horns honking out of the hotel window, cut glass, lucky feet in rose quartz from the window of the eye, have faith. 79 x 51 x 43 inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two angels visited vanessa german last fall, one sharing a word \u2013 Olmec \u2013 and the other urging the artist to continue to practice the spiritual in her art.\u00a0 The resulting series of monumental head sculptures in &#8220;GUMBALL &#8211; there is absolutely no space between body and soul&#8221; at Chelsea\u2019s Kasmin Gallery are extravagantly rich &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/18\/vanessa-german-gumball-there-is-absolutely-no-space-between-body-and-soul-at-kasmin-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;vanessa german, GUMBALL at Kasmin Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[145,586,11307,9155,1768,11306,10,6527],"class_list":["post-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-collage","tag-gumball","tag-kasmin-gallery","tag-multi-media","tag-olmec","tag-sculpture","tag-vanessa-german"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3d6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12442,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions\/12442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}