Designed by fsc student and agb design fellow, Kat latavish

If only we could hear them, imagine the stories stones could tell.  Relics of the past that linger in our present, stones have borne witness to more than we can possibly imagine. And yet, unless part of an awe-inspiring mountainous peak or a prized gem, we tend to take them for granted. Alice Kiderman certainly does not; in her sculptures and stone carvings, she imbues life, experience, and emotion into objects of ultimate inanimacy and inherent hardness.

Born in Russia and now a resident of Naples, Florida, Kiderman sees stones, rocks, and mountains as containers for and communicators of collective and individual histories. Her sculptures hover liminally between abstraction and figuration, just as they stand singly and yet interact relationally.  Like each of us, stones age, bear the signs of their own experiences, and withstand the passing of time, and Kiderman's sculptures cleverly confer human malleability — and life — into nature's most hardened of forms.

Alice kiderman, “sanctuary,” Carrara marble, gold leaf dye