"Reclining Sphinx", Leslie Fry Table-Top Resin Sculpture

Leslie Fry, Internationally acclaimed multi-talented visual artist, lives in Winooski, Vermont, the location of her home and studio and sculpture garden. She has taught art in Montreal, where she was born, and at Dartmouth College and the University of Vermont. She is represented in many International collections and art galleries in Europe, Canada, and the United States.

Her artistic vision incorporates mythological, surrealistic, feminist, Nature-inspired themes. She portrays women free of historical control by others, as well as the love of architecture, the beauty of the female body, the grace of love, and the admiration of Nature. In this table-top sculpture, Fry's visions are clear: her Egyptian-inspired sphinx has stopped being rigid and intimidating and instead is happy and relaxed with a self-satisfied smile, and she is under no one's control but her own. This sphinx luxuriates atop a Classical-style building while draped in a sensuous fabric falling over her body and flippantly onto the serious building. Fry's sphinx is the opposite of a monumental Egyptian female statue frozen in time with half her body a lion. Here she is unpretentious and unconcerned, a strong, self-aware, body-positive, free mythological being released from servitude to outdated social mores, and she is glad.

This figure comes from a private collector who purchased it from the artist's studio in Winooski, Vermont. It weighs 14 pounds.