Arlene Shechet: Sculpting Time | ART21 “Exclusive“

Episode #225: Arlene Shechet discusses a series of plaster sculptures that she created over the course of six years in the mid-1990s, following the death of a close friend. The artist developed a greater appreciation of time following the experience. “To honor Carol, I basically threw out everything in my studio and I started anew,” says Shechet. She began sculpting in plaster, a material with which she had previously worked, but had not valued in the same way. “Every single second as it’s drying, it change