Guardian

WorkTitle
Guardian
Year
1989
Materials
Hydrocal over Steel with Pigment
Dimensions
42" x 43" x 35"
Collection
Mary Ann Unger Estate

In Ms. Unger's "Guardian", a naked woman cut off below the waist, hands on hips, her mouth a pit facing the sky, suggests a Degas Ironer or dancer. But this earthy figure has arms like wings and breasts like missiles. This is a fertility goddess, but of a peculiar kind - one who is both insisting on her fecundity and crying to get out of her skin”. — Michael Brenson, NYTimes, March 3, 1989, Review/Art; Going Beyond Slickness: Sculptors Get Back to Basics at Sculpture Center

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