The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Reeva Potoff has lived in New York since 1965. Her early work comprised monumental sculptural installations made from ephemeral materials. Mica Schist consists of two stacks of black-and-white 8 x 10 photo composites (reprinted for this exhibition) that represent, frame by frame, a rock outcropping in Central Park in 1971. For Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, Potoff created a life-size version of the outcropping using cardboard and polyurethane foam. In 1978, for the Museum of Modern Art’s Project series, this archetypal form inspired a 12-foot-high and 32-foot-long cardboard and tissue paper sculpture titled Bristol Bluffs.