Alter Altar is a solo exhibition of sculptures and site-specific installations by Millicent Young. The exhibit includes seventeen works fabricated over 20 years installed in two historic barn buildings in upstate New York. These artworks range from loft-filling installations embedded with motion activated sound to smaller scaled wall-mounted works that respond to the hand-hewn quality of the vernacular spaces. Young's work draws on the power of simple materials such as clay, horsehair, sticks, metal and rope to weave, thread, stitch, join, forge, hammer, sculpt, bind, and scribe the surrounding environment with a clarity and austerity that elevates the common and creates space for being.
Work included in this exhibition was supported with an Individual Artist grant from the State Council on the Arts/Arts Mid Hudson.
Millicent Young was featured on the cover of March/April 2020 Sculpture Magazine and this exhibition was reviewed by Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani and published on October 13, 2023.
