Artist's Statement
My sculpture speaks to the eternal connection between human existence and nature. It is not concerned with social statement or contemporary attitude. Rather, it attempts to convey the inherent balance found within organic abstraction and resolved line and form. My objective is to create a body of work that both pleases the eye and nourishes the soul.
My preoccupation with the shape of things began in earliest childhood. Traveling extensively, I collected memories of both manmade and natural forms. Primitive figures, wave-polished stones and deep-chambered shells are among the various basic and fundamental shapes that inspire my work.
For me, the process of making sculpture is a personal exploration into obdurate mass to find those elemental forms I collected as a child. My approach is both intuitive and reductive. I remove mass to reveal form. Though my preferred medium is stone, even when I work on plaster maquettes for casting in bronze, I prefer to take away rather than add.
My sculptures are monolithic volumes of mass defined by rounded surfaces that are clean and free of descriptive detail. Light interacts with these surfaces, defining and clarifying them to reveal their hidden mysteries. Recurrent themes are the spiral, the shell, the helix and the reclining figure. Almost all my stone sculptures are cast in bronze. The transition from stone to bronze creates new surface details which must be resolved in order to retain the intent of the original work. In The Shape of Time, my father could have been describing my work when he wrote "...a work of art, which is a complex of many stages and levels of crisscrossed intentions, is always intrinsically complicated, however simple its effect may seem."
Selected Biography
Exhibitions
2000 Art of the Northeast 2000, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, Award; The Amidor Memorial Award for Stone Sculpture
2000 Connecticut Women Artists, Inc., University of Hartford, CT
1999 Qualita Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV; Curator: Nancy Hoffman
1998 Abigail Adams Smith Museum, New York, NY; Designer: Albert Hadley
1998 Quietude Garden Gallery, East Brunswick, NJ
1997 The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT; "The Five Winners" Annual Exhibition
1997 Artspace- New Work '97, New Haven, CT; Curator: Marian Griffith
1996 Recent Work by Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh, Parish-Hadley Associates, New York, NY
1996 The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT, Award; Best Sculpture
1996 Connecticut Women Artists Inc., New Haven CT
1996 Southport Garden Festival, Southport, CT; Designer: Albert Hadley
1995 Five From Connecticut, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
1995 Sanctuary Audubon Birdcraft Museum, Fairfield, CT
1994 Connecticut Women Artists Inc., New Haven, CT
1993 Connecticut Women Artists Inc., New Haven CT
1992 22nd Annual Art Competition, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
1991 Art Asia, Hong Kong Convention Center; Gallery: New Art Centre, London
Selected Private Collections
Barry and Carole Foreman, Potomac, MD
Albert Hadley, New York, NY
William and Judy Holding, Darien, CT
Lynelle Jones, Norwalk, CT
Elizabeth Kubler, Hamden, CT
Richard and Kathy Leventhal, Tenafly, NJ
Herman and Sue Merinoff, Lake Success, NY
Alexandra Merrill, St. George, ME
Alec and Drika Purves, New Haven, CT
Clint and Susan Rodenberg, New York, NY
lvy Rosequist, San Francisco, CA
Larry and Camille Ruvo, Las Vegas, NV
Deborah Tobin, Guilford, CT
Robert and Barbara Wells, Darien, CT
Christiaan Wernink, Ithaca, NY
Guusje Wernink, New Canaan, CT
Nisha Zenoff, Menlo Park, CA
Selected Commissions
Kirshenbaum Bond & Partakers New York, NY
Lancaster Vineyards, Healdsburg, CA
Richard and Kathy Leventhal, Tenafly, NJ
Long Wharf Theater, New Haven, CT
Annual Mary Hunter Wolf Award
Bibliography
Who's Who of American Women 2000
The Norwalk Hour, 5/11/00, Betty Tyler
Art New England, January 1998, Michael Rush
New Haven Advocate, 11/13/97, Hank Hoffman
Darien News-Review, 7/31/97, Karri Williams
The Norwalk Hour, 9/5/97, Barbara Bangster
Architectural Digest, September 1996
Westport Minuteman, 3/7/96
Westport News, 7/10/96
Fairfield Citizen-News, 7/19/96
The New York Times, 9/24/95, Vivian Raynor
Wilton News, 9/16/95, Louise Lancaster-Keim
Connecticut Post, 9/24/95, Phyllls A.S. Boros
Fairfield Citizen-News, 11/25/95, Nancy Lilley
Greenwich News, 10/8/92
Darien News-Review, 11/21/91
Education
B.A. History of Art, Barnard College, NY
M.A. Art and Education, Columbia University, NY
Anderson Ranch Center, Aspen, CO
Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
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