Shaye Rawson's Feathers I

A monumental work in gold and silver leaf, Shaye Rawson's Feathers I commands the wall with the authority of a piece that understands its own scale — nearly ninety inches of vertical presence, its clear finish preserving the luminous interplay between the two metals. The composition moves with an organic quietude, the feathered forms rendered in a vocabulary that feels simultaneously ancient and entirely of the moment. From the house of John Richard, it is the kind of singular object around which a room orients itself.