Known for large-scale sculptural installations, for her third solo in New York Ms. Shettar has created a group of smaller sculptural works, some mounted on the wall and others hanging from the ceiling. Delicately created from muslin and steel, the Bird Song sculptural works with curving, lyrical lines evoking feathers and flight, hang like floating musical notes of a melody. Other works also resonate with an ephemeral beauty found in nature. In another work, muslin cloths textured like weathered skin are stretched into five organic forms, each seemingly yielding to a pull that reveals its fragility with a gentle opening. Waiting for June is comprised of small baked terracotta shells which twist and turn, revealing tender cracks reminiscent of parched earth; poignant yet beautiful.

Shettar’s use of traditional and modern crafts to sculpt natural and industrial materials accentuates the tenuous relationship between industry and nature. She resolves this by uncovering the beauty within their co-existence and in the collaboration between man and nature. In creating environments with sculpture and installation, Shettar fuses the two realms together with dynamic yet graceful forms and textures; revealing the spectacle and magnanimity of natural phenomena. Seduced by their lightness, simplicity and openness, our experience of her works yields humility and a surrender to their splendor.