Mary-Anne Martin | Fine Art presents "Unearthed,” an exhibition of ten new large-scale sculptures by Panamanian artist, Isabel De Obaldía. Inspired by Pre-Columbian sculptures as well as endangered animals of the Panamanian rain forest, the show consists of near life-sized crocodiles, monkey totems, death-heads and jaguars, some engraved, radiant with light and color, others sand-encrusted, as if recently dug up from ruins of long forgotten civilizations.

In the accompanying catalogue essay, Bard Professor Susan L. Aberth observes: The work in this current exhibition…marks yet another watershed moment in De Obaldía’s production in terms of scale and content…Mounted on metal bases specially designed by the artist…these roughly human-sized sculptures represent a different direction. Massive, and even aggressive, they immediately bypass any stereotypical notions of glass as a precious or fragile medium. Emissaries from the amoral realm of nature, their presence is fierce and confrontational and yet also poignant and mesmerizingly beautiful.

In 2006 De Obaldía completed a fellowship at the Wheaton Arts Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, NJ. She returned there in 2007 and 2008 to cast large-scale works for this show, which were then shipped to Panama for hand polishing and engraving. This is her fifth one-person show at Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, where she has exhibited since 1997.

Click here to preview the catalogue of the exhibition.

Please joint us at PINTA, the new Latin American Modern and Contemporary art fair in New York, November 13 to 16, 2008. Now in its second year, the fair brings together 55 galleries from Latin American, Europe and the United States, all promoting art and artists from Latin America. Timed just before Latin American auction week in New York the fair will add excitement and variety to a rapidly growing collecting field.

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Please join us at Art Basel Miami Beach December 3 (opening by invitation) through December 7, 2008, Stand H-8.

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