As a sculptor, my instinct is to render personal responses to life in form. For years I found inspiration within the tradition of organic abstraction, carving marble in the manner of Arp, Brancusi and Moore. Today, however, celebrating natural beauty per se no longer is enough. I feel a need to search for inspiration in all aspects of nature, even those manifested by epic disaster.
THE TSUNAMI PROJECT a solo exhibition created in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, was my first large-scale effort to attempt to reconcile water's inherent fluid grace with its horrific capacity for destruction. A dozen sculptures based on tsunami waves were exhibited at Blue Mountain Gallery in New York in September, 2006. The show was favorably reviewed in the December, 2006 issue of SCULPTURE magazine.
ARCTIC ICE MELT: moulins of my mind, an exhibition exploring the melting of Arctic ice in Greenland, is my latest installation. Here, I imagined the effects of water cascading down through tunnels in the ice called moulins. These tubular chutes are formed when melt water rushes through glacial crevasses. This exhibit was previewed at The American Museum of Natural History in New York during the International Polar Weekend, February 7-9, 2009, and was exhibited at Blue Mountain Gallery in New York September 8-October 3, 2009.
In October, 2009, WING FORM, a large sculpture I carved out of carrara marble, will be installed in the lobby of the Smilow Cancer Center at the Yale University Hospital. In August 2010, one of my global warming sculptures called ARCTIC SUN will be be exhibited in Venice, Italy, at OPEN 13.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
In December, 2007, I exhibited nine figurative sculptures in Miami's Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach. Earlier that year I participated in OPEN 10, the tenth annual International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations in Venice. Co-curated by Achille Bonita Oliva , Alana Heiss and Chang Tsong-zung, under the auspices of Arte Communications and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, OPEN 10 featured the work of 46 artists from 21 countries.
In 2005 I was honored to represent the US Virgin Islands at the 51st International Art Exhibition - LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. Five bronze sculptures from my SHAPE OF TIME series were the focal point of an exhibition that brought attention to the Virgin Islands and to the seminal treatise on art history written by my father, George Kubler, in 1961. Earlier in 2005, one of my large bronze castings called Vertical Edge Form II, was awarded the first F. Scott Fitzgerald prize by John Hightower at the Port Warwick Art & Sculpture Festival in Newport News, Virginia. Vertical Edge Form II was recently installed at the Dwight Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey.
I have had five solo exhibitions in New York City. My work has been shown at the Salmagundi Club, New York, at SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL, The Desert Art Collection, Palm Desert, CA, the Washington Art Association, Washington, CT, the Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, the Abigail Adams Smith Museum, New York, NY, the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT, the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Stamford, CT, the University of Hartford Museum in Hartford, Ct, and the Yale Medical School Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. In 2000 I was awarded the Amidor Memorial Award for Stone Sculpture at Art of the Northeast at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, CT.
I received an AA from Pine Manor, a BA in Art History from Barnard College and an MA from Columbia University. Listed in Who's Who in American Art, I am a member of the Connecticut Women Artists, a colleague of the National Sculpture Society and a member of the National Association of Women Artists. I am represented by the Blue Mountain Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, and by METAKAOS Pte Ltd, 51 Goldhill Plaza, #23-04/07, Singapore 308900
