Ada Pilar Cruz, Iceland hearts Puerto Rico coral - Island Country to Island Country 2, 2022
Island to Island – Sculptures, Papers, Prints by Ada Pilar Cruz
July 1, 2022 – July 31, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 9, 2022 - 4-7 pm
Buster-Levi Gallery, located in the village of Cold Spring, New York, is pleased to announce Island to Island, sculpture, papers and prints by Ada Pilar Cruz. The exhibition will open July 1, 2022 and go to July 31, 2022.
Ada Pilar Cruz’s new works at Buster Levi Gallery are a series of torso sculptures, shrine figures, handmade papers of seaweed and prints. The works were created in the past three years and gather corals from Puerto Rico; seaweed from Iceland that is then incorporated into her sculptural works and prints made in her home studio.
Her artist statement reads:
Island to Island:
Puerto Rico-Iceland-My Studio
I Stare at the horizon from the shore
I don’t swim.
relieved that I am
breathing.
From the beach.
I collect
rocks, pebbles, shells, fish bones, sea glass, sea metal, seaweed, coral
anything
In my studio
I contemplate
Vastness –
Hearts: made of Iceland clay and Caribbean coral
Torsos: made of clay, coral, branches, wire,
Seaweed: paper and prints
Ada Pilar Cruz, Torso with Coral, ceramic, 2022.