Ursula von Rydingsvard closes at Galerie Lelong 5/1
By: Charlie Piane Apr. 29, 2010
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD
ERR?TUS - CLOSING: SATURDAY, MAY 1st
ERR?TUS
March 18 - May 1, 2010
"Just a few days before the artist's opening reception of her recent exhibit Errätus at Galerie Lelong (March 18 - May 1, 2010), Ursula von Rydingsvard welcomed Consulting Editor Irving Sandler and Art Editor John Yau to her Brooklyn Studio to view the works and then discuss her life and work..."
The Brooklyn Rail, April 2010
"Ursula von Rydingsvard's dense, eccentric, craggy sculptures fascinate me, yet I can't remember any art that has made me so strangely uneasy. Her mammoth constructions quiver with power and evocative, disturbing contradictions. These cedar creatures, their scarred and striated surfaces frequently darkened with rubbed-in graphite, are monumental yet intimate, crude yet delicate. Von Rydingsvard is an artist who works on a dauntingly heroic scale while the underlying content of her pieces is intensely personal, even haunted by her memories, for she is a veteran survivor of real struggle..."
"The Sorceress of Cedar" on artnet, April 29, 2010
Recently unveiled at Storm King Art Center:
Luba, von Rydingsvard's second on-site commission in honor of Storm King's 50th anniversary
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