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Wax Poetic.(Petah Coyne's waxed sculptures)(Brief article)
Byline: KIMBERLY STRAUB editor: Valerie Steiker
From her Havisham-esque chandeliers of ten years past to the shrouded ghosts she contributed to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, Petah Coyne has long toyed with themes of femininity and death. This month at Galerie Lelong, the sculptor turns her gaze to Dante's Inferno and a handful of foreign films with an array of white-waxed cocoons and black-waxed dioramas.
"She keeps surprising," says Whitney director Adam Weinberg, who showcased the artist in a 1987 group show at the Whitney at Equitable Center. "The theatricality of this body--the color, the scale, the animals--is really a big shift for her."
Of the fifteen works, Beatrice, an eleven-foot colossus strewn with ...
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