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Twenty-four Feet

Twenty-four Feet

Elise Siegel

Elise Siegel’s compelling, unsettling sculpture captures the fragile mix of innocence and unease that defines childhood. The lively expressiveness of these torso-less, doll-like figures’ sock-clad feet disrupts their rigid arrangement, suggesting the tension between social conformity and the pull of individual will. Siegel is drawn to ceramic for its ability to evoke skin and relies on the medium’s connection to the body to convey heightened emotion.
Artist/Maker
Elise Siegel
(American, b. 1952)
Title
Twenty-four Feet
Date
2004
Material & Process
Ceramic, aqua-resin, paint, fabric, and wood
Dimensions
each figure on chair approx. 33 x 24 1/2 x 11 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Stephen and Pamela Hootkin
Inventory No.
2015.22.9.1-6a-d
Classification
Sculpture
Location
United States

Related

19 November 1994, sold by Garth Clark Gallery (New York, NY) to Stephen and Pamela Hootkin (New York, NY); March 2013/July 2014, deposited on long-term loan to Chazen Museum of Art; 2015, gifted to Chazen Museum of Art

  • Chazen Museum of Art. "The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection." exh. cat. Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2014. pp. 7, 38, 47, 115, 155
  • Princenthal, Nancy. "Elise Siegel at Garth Clark." Art in America (March 2005). http://elisesiegel.com/es/press/art-in-america-2

  • Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection, The: Chazen Museum of Art, 9/5/2014–11/30/2014

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