Skeleton and Shadow, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, 1992, Pen and ink on handmade, Japanese paper, Photo by Phel Steinmetz

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The USC Fisher Gallery presents The Bone-And-Bird Art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw and Sarah Perry, on view through April 14, 2007. Joyce Cutler-Shaw has been exploring both clinically and imaginatively the moving, yet natural, phenomenon of death’s transubstantiation of a vital human organism into an articulated skeletal phantom of one’s essential self. Sarah Perry combs the California deserts to harvest the bones of animals, rodents, reptiles, and owl regurgitations of bone pellets, which she translates into skillfully engineered sculptures of earthly/galactic references. Curated by Max F. Schulz. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19596