Lena Ruth Schwartz
“Eco/Femme/Death/Fairy” (performance), 30” x 29” x 32” , Ceramics, wool, wood, wire. Photo Credit: Feather Chiaverini
Lena Ruth Schwartz is a mixed-media artist from New York City. Her work entangles species through surreal anatomical play, addressing collective grief in the face of extinction. She mythologizes biological systems through material exploration ranging from crochet, wet felting, and ceramics to wearable art and song. Her work desires to compress time, to exist between the expanse of prehistory and an unruly future, to awaken themes of a shared world through laborious handicraft and experiential, auditory, visual, and performative means. Drawing from her own experience with chronic pain and healing, the physical form holds palpable purpose within the work, an infused emotional boundary between skin and air. Building up an underbelly of sonic depth, she uses vocalization and mimicry alongside these sculptural chimeras. She wants to remember what’s quietly disappearing, and to foster material relationships between the hard, soft, and the intangible
Lena Ruth Schwartz
Lena Ruth Schwartz is a mixed-media artist from New York City. Her work entangles speciesthrough surreal anatomical play, addressing collective grief in the face of extinction. She mythologizes biological systems through material exploration ranging from crochet, wet felting, and ceramics to wearable art and song. Her work desires to compress time, to exist between the expanse of prehistory and an unruly future, to awaken themes of a shared world through laborious handicraft and experiential, auditory, visual, and performative means. Drawing from her own experience with chronic pain and healing, the physical form holds palpable purpose within the work, an infused emotional boundary between skin and air. Building up an underbelly of sonic depth, she uses vocalization and mimicry alongside these sculptural chimeras. She wants to remember what’s quietly disappearing, and to foster material relationships between the hard, soft, and the intangible.