Memorial To A Marriage

Deitch Projects
Cronin-Kass Plot, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NY
November 3, 2002 - Eternity

 

carrara marble, over life size, 27 x 42 x 84 inches
Cronin-Kass Plot, Woodlawn Cemetary, Bronx NY

 

Deitch Projects presents one of its most intriguing artists’ projects, Memorial To A Marriage, a new sculpture by Patricia Cronin. It will be unveiled on Sunday, November 3rd, 2002 at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. A three year project funded by Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, it is carved in Carrara marble and designed in the manner of a 19th century mortuary sculpture. This over life-size figurative monument depicts the artist and her partner, the artist Deborah Kass, in a loving embrace.

 

Combining elements from 19th century American Ideal Sculpture and Italian 17th & 18th century sculpture with new 21st century technologies in stone carving, Cronin updates historically traditional forms with contemporary sexual content. Celebrating in death, her "marriage" which cannot be made legal in life, Cronin subverts this sentimental form and breathes new life into it.

 

Installation Views


 

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NY, November 3, 2002 - Eternity

 

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NY, November 3, 2002 - Eternity

 

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NY, November 3, 2002 - Eternity

 

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NY, November 3, 2002 - Eternity

 

bronze, 17 x 26.5 x 52 inches
Installation view in gallery of modern art, GLASCOW scotland, 2009



Installation view of bronze with Rodins in Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, 2004-2005

 



Permanent Collection, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland, On view 2012 - present

 

Press



"Exhuming the Artistic Afterlife from One of NYC’s Historic Cemeteries"
Hyperallergic | September 15 2014

"Til Death Do Us Part"
Artnews | September 2014

"Designs that Outlived Their Benefactors"
The New York Times | August 20 2014

"The Tombs of Artists: A Last Statement From the Grave"
Hyperallergic | August 1 2013

"Love Potions: Art and the Heart"
ARTnews | February 13 2013

"Velvetpark's Official Top 25 Significant Queer Women of 2012"
Velvetpark | December 28 2012

"From Bronx to Eternity"
Hyperallergic | July 3 2012

"Offering a little of everything in art"
The Washington Post | February 23 2012

"From Courbet to the Bronx , The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Names Get Marriage Memorial"
Hyperallergic | October 11 2011

"Til Death Do Us Part"
The Huffington Post | October 4 2011

"Love and Marriage, On Display For Eternity"
Advocate.com | September 21 2011

"Memorial to a Marriage: Artist Patricia Cronin Casts Eternity"
Bomblog | September 19 2011

"Eternal Portraits of a Lesbian Marriage"
Ms. Magazine | September 19 2011

"Artists Patricia Cronin and Deborah Kass to Rest Forever in Bronx Cemetery"
The New York Observer | September 12 2011

"Out Artist Patricia Cronin's New Sculpture"
After Ellen | September 12 2011

"Two Artists Reflect on the Contemporary Memorial"
Public Art Review | Winter 2011

"Seeing Queerly"
Art In America | February 2011
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Desperately Seeking Harriet"
Deutsche Bank | August 2007

"Big Brash Borough"
Art In America | September 2004

"An Open Armed Welcome"
The Lost Angeles Times | June 4 2004

"Brave Grave"
Ms. Magazine | Spring 2004

"Patricia Cronin Memorial to a Marriage"
Artforum | December 2003

"Patricia Cronin"
Out Magazine | December 2003

"Forever Yours"
The Village Voice | October 28 2003

"Sleeping Together : A Daring and Icy Duet"
The New York Times | February 23 2003

"Making the Personal Monumental : A Conversation with Patricia Cronin"
Sculpture Magazine | January 2003

"Plot Twist"
ARTnews | January 2003

"Art In Review : Tammy Rea Carland"
The New York Times | December 13 2002

"Patricia Cronin"
The New Yorker | December 2 2002