Recent Painting and Sculpture
Cynthia Fusillo and Dorothy Shamonsky

January 9 – 27, 1990

A.I.R. presents new works by painter Cynthia Fusillo and sculptor Dorothy Shamonsky. Fusillo’s wooden “escudos” or shields “are at once precious and useful objects, which one can imagine, can be used for magical purposes…Ultimately they are not meant to protect from, but to invite protection on a human, conversational scale,” sats Laura Hoptman, curator of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Shamonsky creates intellectually evocative objects and uses them spatially. Concerned with the relationship betwee definition and form, she uses words and numbers as the inspiration for her wooden furniture-like and toy-like pieces. Shamonsky’s work resides in a world of cause and effect and suggests allegorical models of micro and macro worlds.

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