Tartan Dancer 2

Rebecca Warren's Tartan Dancer 2 shows gorgeous mastery of bronze. The small facets in the sculpture go in and out giving the sculpture an illusion of a coral reef deep down in the blue ocean waiting for the divers to explore it. The front of the sculpture, or what I perceive as the front, reaches up at what appears to be a 60 degree angle as if the structure is reaching up toward the sky. At the tip of the outstretched arm, it gets broader and appears as if a ball could be placed inside of that tip. As if the statue is trying to grab something in the sky with it's claw like hand. The bottom of the coral reef textured statue, the base has an almost rhinoceros look to it. With this one little bump that is like the rhino's horn broke off, and there is a small indent that Warren placed which appears to be the eye ridge of the almost implied rhino. The back of the statue appears like a tumor with a distorted, elongated head and arms protruding out of the tumor. With the elongated almost toucan head and the little long strips that could be perceived as abstracted limbs, does not seem to be part of Rebecca Warren's usual creations. The Tartan Dancer 2, (again in my perception) to be a female dancer of the Scottish clans. Majority of Warren's pieces of art portray the exaggerated female form (Ruf). However, I fail to see the female form in the Tartan Dancer 2.

Tartan Dancer 2

Rebecca Warren

2005-2008

Bronze

25.2 X 15.4 X 27.2 inches

Collection of Jay Ecklund

Displayed at Midway Contemporary Art

Ruf, Beatrix. About Rebecca Warren and her art. Web. 2003-2009. http://www.saatchigallery.co.uk/artists/rebecca_warren_about.htm