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larger than life.(sculpture)(Brief Article)
Byline: Dodie Kazanjian
While they may be in keeping with spring's gypsy, hand-crafted spirit, Peter Schlesinger's new ceramics are a long way from arts and crafts. If anything, these six-and-a-half-feet-tall, totem-like sculptures, with their bulbous, lively, repeating forms, manage to look both monumental and urbane. "It's always tempting to get bigger and bigger," says the artist, "but I didn't just want to make a big vase." So he based the work (now at New York's Jason McCoy Gallery) on baroque, seventeenth-century silver candelabras-candelabras on steroids, that is.
The 56-year-old dropped out of UCLA at 20 to live in London, where he studied painting at the Slade and spent the next ten years. It ...
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