Arlene Shechet

Tall Feather, 2018

Glazed porcelain, white oak, cast concrete, and steel

Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery

Born 1951, New York, NY

Lives and works in Hudson Valley, NY

Sculptor Arlene Shechet is known for her effortless combination of disparate elements, precarious and provisional arrangements, and boundary-collapsing visual paradoxes. The imagery in Tall Feather can be traced directly to one of the found porcelain fragments of an earlier artwork titled Crazy Yolk Garden (2012). Shechet completed this during her 2012-2013 residency at the Meissen porcelain factory in Germany, the first place in the western world to produce porcelain in 1710. To create the towering Tall Feather, Shechet translated this centuries old material by collaborating with Kohler, the American sink and toilet manufacturer. Tall Feather enchants with a sense of humor and incongruity and relates to Shechet’s fascination with pleasure gardens and sculpture parks where art, play, and nature entwine.