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Installation by Arlene Shechet, Low Hanging Cloud (Lion) (installation view, Full Steam Ahead, Madison Square Park, New York, 2018). The image illustrates a key body of work by sculptor Arlene Shechet beginning in the late 2010s when she began to produce commissioned public art installations. The installations were atypical for public art in terms of their unconventional materials, use of multiple "family-like" sculptures, and interactions with their sites. They featured human-scaled sculptures suggesting diverse personalities or creatures, as in this porcelain work weighing more than a ton. This work and body of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, presented a major venues, and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Arlene Shechet. Copyright held by the artist.

Arlene Shechet

Installation view

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The image has contextual significance in that it serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Arlene Shechet's career: her public art installations, which broke with typical public art practices in terms of their varied materials (ceramics, wood and cast iron), custom pedestals, and alterations and additions to the sites, their seating and activities. These installations featured human-scaled sculptures suggesting diverse personalities and a family-like intimacy rare for public sculpture, as well as performances that incorporated Shechet's sculptures as costumes. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's ability to understand this distinct body of work in her practice, which brought Shechet wider recognition through public exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Shechet's work of this type and this work itself is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Arlene Shechet, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.