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Three artists are urged to go big. They didn t hold back.
An installation by the artist Abigail Deville in the show “Brand New Heavies,” in New York, March 23, 2021. In the show “Brand New Heavies,” three female artists answer the curators’ invitation “to do stuff they haven’t been able to do” elsewhere. Like a 20-foot-tall version of the US Capitol dome. Flo Ngala/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- For Abigail DeVille, whose projects employ salvaged materials to address themes often obscured in American history, the opportunity was to make something big. At the center of her multipart installation in “Brand New Heavies,” a three-artist exhibition at Pioneer Works, in Brooklyn, is a 20-foot-tall metal and chicken wire structure inspired by the U.S. Capitol dome. ....

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