Horse and Rider

About The Artist: Pearl Amsel

Czech-born American sculptor Pearl Amsel creates monuments in bronze embodying both ancient myth and recent experience. Her work is sometimes dedicated to commemorating the memory of the victims of Auschwitz, where Pearl Amsel was sent during the war. Although her sculpture is mostly abstract in form, it effectively conveys the heaviness of the material and the extraordinary strength of beings that employ resistance in order to remain free. In...