TRIBES

I hold the stone in my hand

The weight of ages calling for release

Jagged and smooth, the rock is breathing

The souls within await

Tribes emerge

Imprisoned, the excavation commences

Faces awaken and remind

Enduring family, binding humanity

A quiet rescue

The eternal tribe

THE STORY
Tribes is the culmination of three years of work, inspired by a need to rebuild families throughout the world. Hendelman’s vision was to heal our broken societies through art, to reunite the universal family using chisel and stone. Just as early man scratched his image unto the stone walls, thereby ensuring his continuing existence, she creates a new bond for us, a vision of man and woman and child strengthened and renewed. Using the most unforgiving of materials, Hendelman has succeeded in forging a universal truth.

THE ARTIST
The highly praised protégé of renowned sculptor Chaim Gross who once called her gift “unique”, native New Yorker and artist Wendy Hendelman grew up surrounded by art. Studying under the great teachers José de Creeft and Andrea Grassi, and having held residence at Italy’s famed Pietrasanta, her work was most recently profiled by Anthony Haden-Guest and has shown in galleries worldwide.

THE COLLECTION
The collection is comprised of ninety-nine pieces in twenty-six groupings. It is carved from stone as noble as Italian marble and as humble as discarded rock from a New York City construction site. Families once broken are collected and gathered, reunited. What was lost is found, a universal healing, the family of man forever cast in stone.