Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art presents Feallen and Fallow, a six-piece installation featuring four newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar. Drawing inspiration from the cyclical qualities of life and nature, Saar’s Feallen and Fallow will take park goers and visitors on a journey through the four seasons as inspired by the ancient myth of Persephone. Four larger-than-life works cast in bronze will represent the seasons as embodied by the female form at different stages of maturation.... Read more

Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art presents Feallen and
Fallow, a six-piece installation featuring four newly commissioned
works by Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar. Drawing inspiration
from the cyclical qualities of life and nature, Saar’s Feallen and
Fallow will take park goers and visitors on a journey through the four
seasons as inspired by the ancient myth of Persephone. Four
larger-than-life works cast in bronze will represent the seasons as
embodied by the female form at different stages of maturation. Spring
is depicted as an adolescent girl perched high upon an existing tree
trunk. Her wild head of roots cascade downward to conceal her face as
chrysalises in various stages of hatching are shown woven within her
hair and covering her body as if lively, fluttering moths emerging
from cocoons. Summer is depicted as a pregnant woman whose womb holds
a swarm of fireflies, illuminated at the center of the bronze
sculpture for all to see. Fall is represented by a woman of the
harvest with a head of branches extending upwards, barring no leaves
but a smattering of pomegranates, some whole and others split. The
woman holds her skirt in both hands catching the fallen fruit while
others descend to the ground. Winter is shown by a curled stone-like
figure, cast in bronze in which the seasons come to rest, only to
start anew once more.

In addition to the new series, the artist presents two Treesouls
(1994) to stand 14’ high among the Park’s existing foliage. Comprised
of found and sculpted wood with copper cladding, the pair depicts a
coupled young man and woman whose legs dissolve into the earth as a
web of searching roots.