Label Text: The sculptor Judy Pfaff has been creating abstract environments of sinuously-flowing sculpture for years. Seemingly alive, her assemblages explode and tumble, defying gravity and space in amorphous rhythms of brilliantly colored steel. "Life isn't soothing - it's disquieting, so I want to shake people up with many images." Pfaff's three-dimensional installations challenge both sculptural and architectural concepts - dispelling traditional notions of mass, scale, and perspective - as they stop time.
Pfaff's Hand in Hand is more introspective in nature, referring to Eastern mysticism. Produced in 1996, it blends calligraphic scrawls, petroglyphs, and tantric-like handprints to encourage contemplation and spirituality.
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