Ruth Channing
Sculpture Exhibit
“Faunettes”
Antreasian Gallery
www.antreasiangallery .com
March 3rd, 2010 to March 26th, 2010
Opening Reception March 5th , 2010 6-9 PM
Ruth Channing’s basic premise to painting her large canvases and her gestural instincts are more about sculpturing than they are about painting. So it is only natural that eventually she would take that next step to a three dimensional model. Her upcoming exhibit in March 2010 at the Antreasian Gallery will feature her new figurative sculptures. This has been a new direction for Channing, but she has not given up on painting. Her three new paintings give rise to sculpture and will be displaying her intriguing and sexual prints
Fully rounded curves in two dimensions lends themselves to three dimensionally full swells. These figurative sculptures are created from plaster and papier-mache, which she manipulates to create curving forms much the same way that she creates lines her graphic works
She thinks of the high heels of her female, even girlie forms, as the graceful hooves of delicate woodland creatures. Leisurely passing the time of day in idle conversation, they are somewhat fantasy driven fairies of pure angelic white standing in the perfect poise inviting a voyeuristic glance
Of her new works, Channing says, “ These sculptures give three dimensional form to the character “ Faunette” from my etchings. Faunette embodies the female spirit in a state of nature. She is sometimes a bold and confrontational creature, while at other times she blends into her natural surroundings, peering out from behind a rock or tree. To cope with the urban environment, she wears high heels, which remind her of hooves.