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This whimsical artwork depicts a plush gray horse head with black accents and braided yarn details. The soft, textured material and minimalist composition create a charming, almost childlike aesthetic. The piece appears to be a wall-mounted sculpture, playing with the juxtaposition of the organic, handcrafted form against the stark white backdrop. The artist's intention may have been to evoke a sense of nostalgia and imagination, inviting the viewer to engage with this endearing, simplified interpretation of a horse. ...
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Spanning sculpture, video and installation, Rose Nestler’s work mines societal expectations of and relationships to well-known objects, instilling an omnipotent feminine power into the iconic items she recreates. Nestler’s fabric sculptures employ forms and materials that serve to highlight and simultaneously subvert the ways that gendered and trite stereotypes play out on, or impact the experience of their wearers / users. Through reinterpreting loaded garments and objects into oversized soft sculptures and wall hangings that straddle humour, shame and pride, Nestler reclaims iconic patriarchal institutions as feminine spaces. ...
Founded in September of 2016, Mrs. is a contemporary art gallery located in Maspeth, Queens. Located away from the geographic center of the New York art world, the gallery focuses on offering a new platform for emerging, under represented and mid career artists, while engaging the surrounding community.