"BUD" BY ELISA D'ARRIGO

1988
United States
Mixed materials including wire, cloth, acrylic paint, acrylic medium, graphite, pigments, wax, celluclay
28″ high x 35″ wide x 24″ deep

PROVENANCE
New School University Art Collection

A biomorphic sculpture by Bronx-born Elisa D’Arrigo. It has the gravity and presence of an object of natural history–a fossilized dinosaur egg, or a petrified plant specimen. The title expresses what the coiled form seems to suggest–that despite its seeming age, this bud is bound to blossom…or perhaps to hatch.