{"id":5861,"date":"2016-11-09T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:32:45","slug":"arlene-shechet-at-sikkema-jenkins-co-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/arlene-shechet-at-sikkema-jenkins-co-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlene Shechet, I Saw the 18th Century at Sikkema Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wood makes a surprise appearance in sculptor and ceramic artist Arlene Shechet\u2019s latest sculptures at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sikkemajenkinsco.com\/?v=exhibition&amp;exhibition=57d1c8b61d5cb\" target=\"_blank\">Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co.<\/a>, challenging ceramic for primacy in pieces like \u2018I Saw the 18<sup>th<\/sup> Century.\u2019 Shechet is also currently showing new work at the Frick Collection inspired by 18<sup>th<\/sup> century porcelain, but the pieces in Chelsea bear little resemblance to the delicate results of her uptown project, instead suggesting the sturdiness of a corseted matron from a past century. (In Chelsea through Nov 12<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5862\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/arlene-shechet-at-sikkema-jenkins-co-2\/arlene_schechet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5862\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5862\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/arlene_schechet-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Arlene Shechet, I Saw the 18th Century, glazed ceramic, painted and carved hardwood, steel, 69.5 x 19.5 x 19.5 inches, 2016.\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/arlene_schechet-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/arlene_schechet-1200x1857.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/arlene_schechet.jpg 1947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arlene Shechet, I Saw the 18th Century, glazed ceramic, painted and carved hardwood, steel, 69.5 x 19.5 x 19.5 inches, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood makes a surprise appearance in sculptor and ceramic artist Arlene Shechet\u2019s latest sculptures at Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co., challenging ceramic for primacy in pieces like \u2018I Saw the 18th Century.\u2019 Shechet is also currently showing new work at the Frick Collection inspired by 18th century porcelain, but the pieces in Chelsea bear little resemblance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/arlene-shechet-at-sikkema-jenkins-co-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arlene Shechet, I Saw the 18th Century at Sikkema Jenkins&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[1420,1995,8,147,18,1215,117,571,13,432,12,10,222,16,1514],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-abstract","tag-arlene-shechet","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-ceramic","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-gallery","tag-gallery-tour","tag-new-york","tag-sculpture","tag-sikkema-jenkins","tag-tour","tag-wood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1wx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861","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=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11812,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions\/11812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}