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If you love books and animals, you’ll want to add to your bookshelf or table top collection an artwork from this Animal Tales series. 

In the ANIMAL TALES series, I create hand drawn, kiln-fired paintings on glass of animals and attach them to manipulated books; the titles of which are specifically chosen to the animal either in personality or in subject matter.
This wall sculpture consists of a regrouping of found and repurposed materials.
Two black birds… are they crows? or ravens?
Whose blue spotted eggs are these? …the Crows? or Ravens? 
Will this become a new family?  … or the next meal?
Ultimately, an Agony or Ecstasy.
The Agony and the Ecstasy  -  Irving Stone’s biographical novel on the life of Michelangelo is the text I've used here to present this dilemma. Michelangelo's Pieta presents a similar conundrum.

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Agony or Ecstasy - (Eggony or Eggstasy) a wall sculpture Sculpture

Nanci Schrieber-Smith

United States

Sculpture, Glass

Size: 21 W x 20 H x 10 D in

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$563

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If you love books and animals, you’ll want to add to your bookshelf or table top collection an artwork from this Animal Tales series. In the ANIMAL TALES series, I create hand drawn, kiln-fired paintings on glass of animals and attach them to manipulated books; the titles of which are specifically...

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2019

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Multi-paneled Sculpture, Glass

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

21 W x 20 H x 10 D in

Number of Pieces:

3

Ready to Hang:

Yes

Mounting:

Wall-Mounted

Frame:

Not Framed

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Certificate is Included

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Ships in a Crate

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Shipping is included in price.

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United States.

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This Saatchi site is linked with : Schrieber-Smith is a multidisciplinary artist whose processes have evolved full-circle from glass, to mixed media assemblage, to painting, and now back to glass. Schrieber-Smith produces work in themed series such as the Paper-Doll series, the Neo-Mythology Series, the Working Women of the World series, the Glass Menagerie Series, the Glasscape Series and most recently the Animal Tales Series. The Glass Menagerie series began in May 2013, when she married her assemblage, painting and glass skills resulting in a whole new sculptural direction with open-ended imagery and mystery. The Animal Tales series couples her love of animals with her love of stories. Once again repurposing materials…this time books. The books are chosen to compliment the animal portrait. The portraits are a combination of glass painting and reverse painting on glass. The books are manipulated and adorned to compliment the painting which becomes affixed to the book. It is her intention for the artworks from both the Glass Menagerie Series and the Animal Tales Series to give new purpose and new meaning to the debris of our civilization. When not in the studio or in the classroom, Schrieber-Smith explores the world. Her extensive travel experiences in Europe, South America and Asia are an ongoing influence in both her artwork and her teaching. In 2016, Schrieber-Smith was honored by her Alma Mater with an induction into the Fine Arts Hall of Fame. Schrieber-Smith has works are in public and private collections both nationally and internationally.

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