Each week, Petah Coyne reads two or three books. Along with film and the natural world, literature has had a profound impact on the artist throughout her decades-long career, as she references Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Zelda Fitzgerald, and numerous other women in her works. Coyne gravitates toward texts rooted in feminist principles, which she then puts into conversation and filters through large-scale sculptures and installations.
Dichotomies flourish in the artist’s practice as she suspends silk bouquets in specially formulated wax, dipping the vibrant blooms in a molten wash and often displaying them upside down. Many pieces capture the tension between preservation and loss and beauty and monstrosity, particularly as they relate to the complexity of women’s lives. The combination of myriad materials furthers this contrast, as the artist pairs luscious silks with paper towels, soft velvet with nuts and bolts, and shackles with woven tassels.
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