Author Description

From Publishers Weekly Full of quiet beauty, Sovern's sculpture sings with her love of life, of the perceived, felt environment. In works like Torso, Rabbit and Lima Bean, natural phenomena serve as springboards for graceful abstractions that wed elegance to strength. Lovers, a nude, embracing couple, breathes a passionate stillness that yields to the orgiastic release of her semiabstract Thrust. Sovern knows how to make the most of the play of light, as in her Plexiglas Facets, a remarkable piece that opens (and looks) like a tall seashell. Her Imagined Worlds rock-scapes and woodscapesputs one in mind of ancient megaliths or American Indian rock art. In this slender volume, Merriam, a freelance writer, traces the growth of this reticent New York sculptor who has exhibited in only a few group shows over the past 30 years. Art photographer Finn explores 20 of her pieces from every angle. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.