Powerfully Fine Filigree

LEANING FIGURE (porcelain, rebar, air dry clay, epoxy, 48 x 36 x 36")

This month Rebecca Manson 11 CR is sharing an amazing body of work that has captured her imagination since graduation. Called Overview, her show runs through July 29 in Long Beach, CA.

“These porcelain works explore the power people have when they come together, however threatening that may be,” Manson says in announcing the outcome of her two-year residency at California State/Long Beach, where the exhibition is on view. 

BASSINET (porcelain, epoxy, plaster, wire, 60 x 26 x 30")

“Enigmatic and frighteningly original, Rebecca Mansion began her artistic journey with a simple question: ‘Why do all the legs of a chair have to reach the ground?’” notes critic Jerry Adler. “Despite never being seen in daylight, she has emerged as a sculptor of the imagination, of nightmares refracted through humor, of figures stripped to sun-bleached filigrees of bones that lay bare the giggling monsters inside each of us.”