Kristi Cavataro’s modular stained-glass sculptures can evoke art deco skyscrapers, flowering cacti, or overgrown pieces of circuitry. But look long enough and her strikingly unconventional forms defy comparison. “I’m not trying to make a thing that is easily nameable,” says the artist from her South Bronx studio, where she has lived and worked since 2015. “They’re not illustrations of a thing.
wall-mounted piece, her most ambitious to date, took two. Before she begins production, Cavataro spends hours trawling wholesalers’ websites for specific colors of sheet glass, although COVID has disrupted the already-complicated supply chain—due to mine closures, certain minerals used in colored glass are now scarce.recently visited the Donald Judd survey at the Museum of Modern Art, she found herself studying his palette, which was bold without feeling whimsical.
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