Beth Cavener Captive
Price on request
Unique
2024
Stoneware, Mixed Media, Burned Wood
Captive depicts a life-sized equine figure poised on a burned and blackened plinth, her body curving in tandem with the tiger, designed in collaboration with J.A.W. Cooper, tattooed onto her flesh and, perhaps, her mind, holding her within its predatory embrace. This piece reflects on the complex patterns of behaviour that form around reactions to fear and pain, and ultimately merge with our sense of self, oftentimes irrevocably.
Artist
Beth Cavener
Beth is currently a full-time professional studio artist working in the state of Montana. She received her BA in sculpture from Haverford College and her MFA from Ohio State University. She was awarded the Artist Trust Fellowship in 2009, the Jean Griffith Foundation Fellowship in 2006, the Virginia A.Groot Foundation Grant and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in 2005, and the American Craft Council’s Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2004.
