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Elaine Surnow’s bronze sculptures possess a timeless quality, particularly focused on representations of the female nude, sometimes depicting slender, elegiac forms that emphasize the relationship between the body and gravity. Her fragile and strangely elongated figures are associated with the image of a resilient humanity.
They all share common characteristics, such as the elongated silhouettes, slight asymmetries, heavily textured surfaces and inherent sense of frailty. Their somber elegance speaks to universal themes of life and death, darkness and light.
Elaine Surnow Cubist pieces consist of simplified geometric vocabulary, as though piecing together surfaces seen from a multitude of vantage points. The work essentially strives to show multiple aspects of the subject simultaneously shifting in volume and presence as though moving through time. She successfully translates the ambiguities of Cubist representation into three dimensions.
