Alice Mackler Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings
June 9 - July 26, 2013
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Press Release
Kerry Schuss is pleased to present a survey of the work of New York artist Alice Mackler. This exhibition spans 45 years of artwork in several mediums including ceramic sculptures, drawings, collages, and paintings. Mackler, born in 1931 in New York City, has been making art most of her life, but this is her first solo exhibition. She studied at the Arts Students League and received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
The exhibition focuses on recent ceramic sculpture. Glazed in rich colors, each piece represents a female figure with a distinct, lively personality. With their lumpy forms they call to mind ancient fertility sculptures like the Venus of Willendorf as well as modern versions of the female form by Elie Nadelman, Gaston Lachaise, Jean Dubuffet, and Willem DeKooning. The drawings and collages from 2006 to 2009 and paintings from 1968 reveal a continuous preoccupation with images of women, color, and gestural abstraction. There is much humor and whimsy in these joyful pieces and a depth of soul reflecting many years of experience in life and art.
Alice Mackler's work recently came to wide notice in the group exhibition, "Forget About the Sweetbreads", curated by Joanne Greenbaum and Adrianne Rubenstein held in January 2013 at James Fuentes Gallery on the Lower East Side. Mackler's work was singled-out in reviews by Roberta Smith in the "New York Times" and Andrew Russeth in the "New York Observer". Alice Mackler was also included in an article titled, "6 Artists Who Made It Big After Turning 70" by Julia Halperin in "Blouin Art Info" March 23, 2013.