Marianne Vitale
New York artist Marianne Vitale has been described as a surveyor, under-taker and soothsayer of hard truths, conveyed poetically. For her sculptures she creates monuments from the spectres of American industrial expansion: bridges, railroad tracks, freight train engines, dams, factories, outhouses – in an excoriating critique of the contemporary collapse of Western society, forcing us to interrogate our own histories through the objects we abandon in the name of progress. With that skillful manipulation of material and form to link past with present, her recent shift to paintings on canvas continues her assessment of a ruptured society.
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