For years Cornlia Kubler Kavanagh found inspiration within the tradition of organic abstraction, carving sculpture in the manner of Arp, Brancusi and Moore. Today, Kavanagh continues her search for natural beauty, of shape and form, even in wraths of nature. “The paradox of water as an element of natural beauty and an instrument of destruction fascinates me,” says Kavanagh. “ARCTIC ICE MELT: Moulins of My Mind,” a solo exhibition in September 2009, New York. The 11 sculptures were created out of an emotional response to the warming of the polar ice cap. Here she imagines the effect of water rushing through glacial crevasses called moulins, as the ice melts. The TSUNAMI PROJECT, a solo exhibition of 10 “WAVE” sculptures were created in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, was her first large-scale effort to attempt to reconcile water’s inherent fluid grace with its horrific capacity for destruction. In 2010, American artist Cornelia Kavanagh just received an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts, from the Pine Manor College in Boston. In December, 2007, Kavanagh exhibited nine figurative sculptures in Miami’s Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach. Earlier in 2007, Kavanagh participated in OPEN 10, the 10th annual International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations in Venice-Lido. Co-curated by Achille Bonita Olivia, Allana Heiss and Chang Tsong-zung, under the Auspices of Arte Communications and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, OPEN 10 featured the work of 46 artists from 21 countries. In 2005, Kavanagh was honored to represent the US Virgin Islands at the 51st INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION- LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. Five bronze sculptures from her Shape of Time series were the focal point of an exhibition that brought attention to the Virgin Islands and the seminal treatise on art history written by her father, George Kubler, in 1961. Also in 2005, one of her large bronze castings, Vertical Edge Form II, was awarded the first F. Scott Fitzgerald prize by John Hightower at the Port Warwick Art & Sculpture Festival in Newport News, Virginia. Vertical Edge Form II was recently installed in the courtyard of the Dwight School in Englewood, New Jersey. Kavanagh has had five solo exhibitions in New York City and has participated in a number of group exhibitions nationally and abroad. Kavanagh received an AA from Pine Manor, a BA in Art History from Barnard College and an MA from Columbia University. Listed in Who’s Who In American Art, Kavanagh is a member of the Connecticut Women Artists, a colleague of the National Sculpture Society and a member of the National Association of Women Artists. Visit www.corneliakavanagh.com to view more works.