The Malton Gallery was showing an exhibition called Lightness of Being. This featured paintings from students who won Malton Galleries contest to show their work. Abby King, a graduate of St. Xaiver's art program who paints, and Emily Sites, a University of Cincinnati DAAP graduate who works with bronze and forged metal were the winners. However, I will only focus this post on Emily.
Sites creates sculptures that seem simplistic in a way. The way she bends the steel metal creates these wonderfully thin, long lines that guide your eye in a flowing motion. She often incorporates fabric on her pieces. For example, she created an outline of a woman's torso and within it, she sewed black lace sparingly so enhance the softness of the curve of the hip. On another installation, she had these worn looking handcuffs hung from the ceiling. Inside the handcuffs layer fur. This to me was awesome because she took something so cold and hard and combined it with something soft and generally warm. My favorite pieces of hers would have to be the three sculptures of women's legs walking. Even though the legs in all three were basically the same, she created them all at three different sizes and then placed them next to each other, smallest to largest. This created such a sense of motion, I felt like I could see the legs walking right in front of me! I also really enjoyed seeing the whelding marks that naturally occurred. RAW POWER! Sites had a great number of pieces shown and I enjoyed how they were displayed. She had a large space on the first floor of the gallery and was able to use it well.
These are the only two images of Sites work that I could find. These were taken from the Malton Gallery Facebook page. There were no titles listed with these images and I don't want to guess.
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| Emily Sites 2011 These are the walking legs I described above. |
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| Emily Sites 2011 This is part of the "Three Steel Figures" collection |
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