This and That: Vincent Valdez and Adriana Corral and Chris Musina

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. See past “This and That” posts here. – Ed.

Today: Dying birds

A large black sculpture of a bird on its back sits on the floor of a gallery that has an abstract work on the wall behind it.
Vincent Valdez and Adriana Corral, “Requiem,” 2019, clay, cast bronze, ash; dates hand carved into drywall. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund

 

a sculpture of a parakeet on its back.
Chris Musina, “Fall of Incas/Conuropsis Carolinensis d. 1918”

 

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