'Balance’ is the latest iteration in Kyle Montgomery’s decade-long sculptural intermingling of spiritualism, and antique religious figurines of the Virgin Mary.
Within ‘Balance’ Montgomery continues to refine his Crystal Mary’s as a “portal to knowledge”, finding harmony between the chalkware statue as a symbolic vessel, and the elemental crystals that encapsulated in her silhouette and robe.
Montgomery’s work sits in an in-between space; balancing both a desire for faith, and a willingness to give one’s self over to the unknown. For Montgomery, crystals are a symbol of cosmic potential, holding within them both healing qualities, and the mysteries of the universe.
Somehow there is a sense of harmony within the canonical rupture between religion and spirituality that plays out within Montgomery’s ever evolving collection. Endlessly repeated forms of religious iconography are rendered new, revealing a complex meditation on birth, afterlife, and the spaces in between.
- Posted in 2022
- Tagged Kyle Montgomery