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Late German artist Mary Bauermeister<\/a> addressed natural, mathematical and spiritual order in artworks composed of stones that she collected from beaches around the Mediterranean and Atlantic.\u00a0 Now on view at Micheal Rosenfeld Gallery<\/a>, a selection of the artist\u2019s work from the late 1950s to 2018 includes her first stone work from 1962 and pieces from the same decade including this large assemblage, \u2018Stone Arrow\/Error,\u2019 which seems to indicate a colossal downturn or alternatively, a suggestion to look down to the earth.\u00a0 Composed of small to tiny water-smoothed pebbles arranged by size to suggest a recession into infinity at the center, the pattern of stones is broken by a white area of canvas at the bottom.\u00a0 Here, a drawing of a hand drawing the hand that places the stones suggests an awareness of self-awareness that leads the viewer to ponder our frames of reference when it comes to creativity and the natural world.\u00a0 (On view through Jan 31st<\/sup> at Michael Rosenfel Gallery in Chelsea).<\/p>\n

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Mary Bauermeister, Stone Arrow\/Error, stones, casein tempera and ink on plywood wrapped in painted canvas and particle board coated with sand, in two parts, 66 \u00be x 49 \u00bd x 4 \u00be inches, 1964-66.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mary Bauermeister, Stone Arrow\/Error, stones, casein tempera and ink on plywood wrapped in painted canvas and particle board coated with sand, in two parts, 66 \u00be x 49 \u00bd x 4 \u00be inches, 1964-66.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late German artist Mary Bauermeister addressed natural, mathematical and spiritual order in artworks composed of stones that she collected from beaches around the Mediterranean and Atlantic.\u00a0 Now on view at Micheal Rosenfeld Gallery, a selection of the artist\u2019s work from the late 1950s to 2018 includes her first stone work from 1962 and pieces from … <\/p>\n

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