Bride
2010, 120” x 90” x 90”, glass, wood, paint, adhesive, permanent collection of North Carolina Museum of Art, photo credit: Eva Heydova
This five-tiered, 10-foot-tall still life cascades down from perfect order to total chaos, as the more than 500 individual glass elements that make up this sculpture are knocked over, slumped, broken, melted, and shattered by the time they reach the bottom tier. This multilayered, crystal-clear still life alludes to the layers of a wedding cake or an elaborate bridal gown. Included in Bride are aspects of the North Carolina Museum of Art’s collection, including a 17th-century German silver cup by Paulus Fischer and workshop; a plate of fish from Pieter Aertsen’s 16th-century market scene painting A Meat Stall, the cat and bird in Frans Snyders’s Market Scene on the Quay and a 19th-century Ottoman Esther Scroll and Case.
Detail, Bride, photo credit: Eva Heydova
Detail, Bride, photo credit: Eva Heydova
Installation view, Bride, North Carolina Museum of Art, photo credit: NCMA
Installation view, Bride, North Carolina Museum of Art, photo credit: NCMA