Petah Coyne
Untitled #1243 (The Secret Life of Words), 2007
Silk flowers, curly willow branches, chicken wire fencing,
specially formulated wax, silk and rayon duchesse satin fabric,
spray paint, white pigment, pearl-headed hat pins,
fabricated steel understructure, chain, cable, cable nuts, wire,
Velcro, thread, quick-link shackles, and jaw to jaw swivel
92 x 37½ x 43 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York
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PETAH COYNE
Two major sculptures by artist Petah Coyne are on view in the Center Gallery.
Coyne’s work may be characterized by an embrace of dualities; aspects of joy and horror, the beautiful and the grotesque, the spiritual and the sensual, order and chaos, may be found throughout her body of work.
In Untitled #1181 (Dante’s Daphne), 2006 from Coyne’s Dante’s Inferno series, large masses of wax-dipped flowers, velvet, and branches in dark colors sprawl across the gallery floor.
Untitled #1243 (The Secret Life of Words), 2007, from the series titled Unforgiven, is composed of pale flowers and white doves suspended in the air.
With these two works Petah Coyne encompasses darkness and light, earth and heaven, decay and regeneration.
Petah Coyne is on view August 30-December 13, 2009.
