Sculptor Barbara Scavotto-Earley Info - Sculpture.org

Barbara Scavotto-Earley is noted for her sculptural commentaries and parodies on human behavior with emphasis on the postural nonverbal dialect of the body. The world's family with never-ending mystery, diversity, individuality and universality is the key subject and nucleus of her sculptures. Scavotto works in thematic series utilizing wit and word play in her titles and gestures. With the exception of her larger clay depictions of the seven deadly sins, titled "SINce My Last Confession" which focus on facial expressions, her figures are exclusive of such visage. Humans Being is a series of social, emotional and spiritual commentaries on everyday issues, behaviors, and relationships while aMUSEments are steel sculptural tonics inviting the viewer to sip the humor and tickle the funny bone. Resemblant of toys, the latter is often mildly kinetic and equipped with pretend wind-up keys. The figures perform entertaining feats of equilibrium and multiple tasks and offer a reprieve where global trials, human afflictions and the sting of reality are silenced by humor, celebration and delight. The clay pARTy hat series portrays colorful marbled figures occupying vibrant conical forms in playful attitudes and gestures.
Scavotto's exhibitions are widespread in New York and New England. Among her solo exhibition venues are Artworks Gallery in Hartford, CT, The Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. Gallery at the Richmond Art Center, Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT, The Schumacher Gallery at the Westover School in Middlebury, CT and UCONN's Babbidge Library in Storrs, CT. Numerous group and invitational shows include Real Art Ways and Artspace Gallery in Hartford, CT, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, the National Association of Women Artists 5th Avenue Gallery in New York City and Atelier 14 and New World Art Center in New York City and Federal Reserve Bank Gallery in Boston, MA.
Scavotto is the recipient of numerous awards including two Individual Artist Fellowship Grants from The Greater Hartford Arts Council, The Amelia Peabody Memorial Award and National Medal of Honor for Sculpture from the National Association of Women Artists in New York City. Her "Dispositions" sculpture from the Humans Being series is featured in a new Lark book titled "500 Figures in Clay, Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form" by Sterling Publishers and edited by Veronika Gunter. She is a member of New England Sculptors Association, CT Women Artists, CT Academy of Fine Arts, New Britain Museum of American Art and Real Art Ways in Hartford. Scavotto earned her teaching degree at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT, and studied in graduate coursea at Wesleyan University and University of CA. She trained in basic welding at Baron Institute of Technology in Windsor, CT.