Celebrating the body

NARROWSBURG, NY — The Delaware Arts Center Gallery at 37 Main Street is hosting an exhibit of sculptures by Cara Grae Meling that will run through March 17.

Says Meling of her work, “My art speaks about the beauty of the form, through both abstraction and representation. I find beauty in the human body: the way it moves, the way it reacts to others, its sexuality and presence; and from this, I derive my inspiration. Oftentimes my pieces are without color, so the viewer focuses on the form, and the form alone.”

The materials used in Meling’s castings include plaster, wax, glycerin and glass. She creates primarily by means of traditional and non-traditional molds, or casting directly from the human body. Her work also includes the use of intense dramatic lighting on the varied and repetitive colorless forms. Such use gives an emphasis on each individual form.

Meling lives in Lackawaxen, PA and has a BFA in sculpture from Pennsylvania State University. She recently attended a two-month residency program at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington.

Sponsored by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance and the Arts Council for Sullivan County, the exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from the Visual Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state Agency. Admission is free.