Caroline ramersdorfer biography

Austrian-born Caroline Ramersdorfer studied philosophy in Paris and sculpture in Carrara, Italy, and her sculpture is rooted in both disciplines. About ten years ago, a grant for a multimedia project led to the series Inner Views, works in marble that use light and space to create physical and spiritual interiors. Both large and small scale, her work is a study in contrasts—tense and fluid, weighty and ethereal—and speaks to the mutability of perception and experience.

Ramersdorfer carves into slabs of marble to reveal complex interior spaces crisscrossed by spindles, some as delicate as finger bones, others more substantial.
Lit from within and without, the effect is of something both built and organic.
From without, these structures, with their sharp angles and imposing heft, are a vital presence. In one series, groups of diamond-shaped marble slabs sit solidly in metal stands, grounded with an inward energy. Others rest on delicate metal piers or hang suspended from the ceiling, thrusting outward, intruding into the space around them. In all her sculpt

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