On a long 17th-century wooden side table stands a group of curious, possibly ritualistic objects consisting of heavy wire bent into curvy, fanciful forms and attached to wooden handles.
Note: The colorful and fanciful forms of the crocheted reef will be on display at Broadway Windows, a gallery at the corner of Broadway and 10th St., and at the Winter Garden, at the World Financial Center, starting April 5).
For a funerary display on glass shelves called "Ashes to Ashes," Antonio Riello created clear goblets of blown glass in various fanciful forms, partly filled each with the ashes of a famous book that he had burned and applied a label identifying the cremated tome.
The process of mending in this case assumes some highly fanciful forms: an oracle from the temple of Apollo (the occasion for a charming coup de théâtre), a man devoured by a bear, a changeling princess who grows up believing she's a shepherd's daughter, and an inanimate work of art that comes to life.
There are traditional mantel clocks in wooden, peaked-roofed houses and extravagantly fanciful forms like one from 1579 that has a revolving globe engraved with star charts and figures of the zodiac held up on the wingtips of a flying horse, all beautifully fashioned in silver.
Its deep black angular shapes unmistakably form a fanciful figure with a short tail, but it has the same sense of counterpoise as the Anschuz.
In semi-abstract landscape paintings with heavily built-up surfaces, Ms. Dubasky, who has exhibited in New York for 20 years, layers fanciful plant forms over blurry, patchwork fields.
In semi-abstract landscape paintings with heavily built-up surfaces, Ms. Dubasky, who has been exhibiting regularly in New York for 20 years, layers fanciful plant forms over blurry, patchwork fields.
The paintings share surface similarities with Western abstract art — they have the energy of a Pollock, the exuberant colors of a Matisse, and the fanciful geometric forms of a Miró — yet they are also intricate narrative works that relate detailed stories about the lives of the artists' ancestors.
