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After a life in the fashion industry, which began as a fit model in a Polish state-run clothing factory and progressed to running her beloved NYC-based brand \u2018A Detacher,\u2019 Mona Kowalska struck out as a visual artist.\u00a0 Six years later, her second solo show at Kerry Schuss Gallery<\/a> in Tribeca demonstrates her continued interest in bodies, expressed through textiles.\u00a0 A sculpture of a thick and curvy, Smurf-like lower torso and legs crafted in impressively thick lengths of hemp rope rests near a dress and boots made in the same material.\u00a0 Nearby, a bowl-like wooden form attached to the wall and covered with black netting suggests a figure partially disguised by a face veil.\u00a0 Another mysterious visage emerges from two socks joined by a single string, a shaggy, wall-mounted sculpture made of goat hair that effects a fairy-tale-like merger of human and animal forms. (In view in Tribeca through Oct 25th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

Mona Kowalska, Goathair Socks, goathair, cotton, 25.5 x 15.5 x 1.5 inches, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a life in the fashion industry, which began as a fit model in a Polish state-run clothing factory and progressed to running her beloved NYC-based brand \u2018A Detacher,\u2019 Mona Kowalska struck out as a visual artist.\u00a0 Six years later, her second solo show at Kerry Schuss Gallery in Tribeca demonstrates her continued interest in … <\/p>\n

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