Sculpture Magazine - July/August 2003 vol.22 No.6

Reviews: New York - Deborah Masters at Maurice Arlos Fine Art
By Jonathon Goodman

Art in Armerica - February 2003

Deborah Masters at Maurice Arlos and Smack Mellon By Lilly Wei

New York Times - September 27, 2002


'Sacred Matter’ - Karen Dolmanisth and Deborah Masters By Holland Cotter - Smack Mellon Studios

Vie Des Arts - 2001


DEBORAH MASTERS - An American in New York By Paquerette Villeneuve

The Brooklyn Papers “GO”: January 13, 2003


Thinking Big - Sculptor Deborah Masters Talks about her ‘Angel’ in the Brooklyn Public Library
By Lisa J. Curtis

Art in America - March 1992


Deborah Masters at LedisFlam By Nancy Princenthal

Village Voice - January 23, 1990


“Women in Command”
By Arlene Raven

Art in America -June 2001


Public Art in New JFK Terminal By Cathy Lebowitz

Reviews:
The New York Times - The Arts -Thursday, May 24, 2001

Being Met At the Airport By New Art - Big, Bold Installations For a Rebuilt Kennedy Arrivals Terminal
By CELESTINE BOHLEN

Art in America - ART WORLD - April, 2002

Awards...

Greenline- Revelations- Artist and Activist

Brigette by Barbara Schaeffer

Philadelphia Inquirer- In Sculptor's Figures, A Mysterious Gravity

NY Times- Dith Pran- Front Page Sunday Times

The New York Times - Friday, October 4, 2002


ART GUIDE - Last Chance

Newsday -City - Thursday April 26, 2001


Missing Cloth’s No Cover-Up
By Pete Bowles

CRAIN’S New York Business - Jan. 28-Feb. 4, 2001


The Fine Art of Traveling

Daily News - Wednesday, April 25, 2001


“Artist Adds Loincloth to Jesus in JFK Mural”
By Warren Woodberry Jr.

The New York Times -The Metro Section - Wednesday, April 25, 2001


Blushing, Then Brushing, Artist Covers Nude Christ
By SUSAN SAULNY

DIE ZEIT - 4/6/2002 


Hipster auf Asbest
Nur eins stört den industriellen Charme im Szeneviertel Williamsburg: die Industrie
Thomas Fischermann

New York Times - Making ‘Dwell Time’ Fly Just a Little Faster


New $1.4 Billion Terminal at J.F.K. Aims to Ease Waits for Passengers
By Ronald Smothers

The North Brooklyn Community News-GREENLINE- January 6- Feb 27, 2003


Crossing Brooklyn: Angel in Crown Heights
Deborah Masters

Punkasspunk.com, phancy.com April 24, 2001
Jesus' groin painted over after complaints

Above the Immigration Hall, Walking New York

Describing the theme of her narrative relief panels mounted on a 300-foot wide space above the immigration booths, sculptor Deborah Masters emphasizes the familiar, as well as the diverse in New York

Hemispheres - August 2001


Terminal Bliss / New York's JFK
By David Butwin

Interior Design - 9/1/2001


First Class - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designs a new international terminal at JFK. By Edie Cohen

Los Angeles Times - Sunday, May 20, 2001


“New York’s JFK Airport Opens a New Terminal”

Brooklyn Bridge - September 1996


“Casts of Thousands”
By Bonnie Schwartz

New York Times - LedisFlam
April 1, 1988


Blue Angel: The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes in Post-Feminist Sculpture By Michael Brenson

New York Times - LedisFlam -
March 3, 1989


“Beyond Slickness: Sculptors Get Back to Basics”
By Michael Brenson

Village Voice - March 9th, 1993


LedisFlam - ‘Covert Action’
By Elizabeth Hess

Chico Enterprise Record - August 17, 1990


“Garden of Statues Grows at Chico State”

ARTLETTER- 1991


A Publication of the Art Department of California State University at Chico
“The Monoliths Have Landed”

The Daily News-Wednesday April 25, 2001


Mural Modesty - After complaint, artist adds loincloth to nude figure of Jesus - By Paul Mose

Newsday Copy- Profile- Sheila McKenna

ARTLETTER 1989-1990 Edition


“Visiting Artists & Scholars”
- Deborah Masters
California State University, Chico

Style: The Washington Post -Wednesday, September 4, 2002

Forsaken Warehouse District Is New York’s Latest Art Home
By Blake Gopnik

Gracie Mansion Gallery - Arts Magazine


“New York in Review”
By Robert Mahoney

Art in America - LedisFlam


Women at War 1993
By Ruth Bass

The New Zealand Hereld, World News - Thursday, April 26, 2001


X-rated Jesus given face-saving Y-fronts

JFK Catalogue Copy

The Brooklyn Phoenix - October 1988


LedisFlam
‘Trails of Showing Sculpture in Park’

Chico Enterprise Record - Friday, August 17, 1990


“Three Sisters and a Rose Garden”

The Orion - January 30, 1991


“Sister, Sister: Masters’ Final Sculpture Project Looks Inward”
By Courtney Rastatter

The Orion - 1991


“Sculpture’s New Location Solves Controversy”
By Lauren Dodge

PennState Harrisburg Currents -
Fall 1990


“Sculpture Garden Receives an Angel”

Eureka Standard- Jesse

New Yorker, Nancy Ramsey, Loft Tenants

Brooklyn Magazine
Brooklyn Artists, The Newest Left Bank
Amy Virshup, 1986

 

Daily News
“Artist Adds Loincloth to Jesus in JFK Mural”
Wednesday, April 25, 2001


By Warren Woodberry Jr.
Artist Deborah Masters said she didn’t intend to spark controversy when she painted a mural with a nude figure of a crucified Christ at Kennedy Airport. Masters, 50, whose work is displayed in Terminal 4, said she forgot to paint a loincloth on the Christ figure, which she had originally intended to do. She got her reminder after an offended worker complained to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. “When I realized it was missing, I put it on,” Masters said yesterday, after she willingly “dressed” Christ at the League’s request. “It was my original intent.”
The South Williamsburg woman’s mural also features sculpted reliefs of a Botanica with candles and Virgin Mary statues beside an African vegetable market. It is part of a 28-mural collection in the airport’s new International Arrivals Terminal. The murals, collectively called “Walking New York,” span more than 300 feet in an area where arriving passengers will wait to clear immigration, giving them a colorful glimpse of city life.
Catholic League president William Donohue commended Masters for altering the nearly 20-inch long figure last week.Donohue said he believes Masters meant no harm, but was concerned her work would raise eyebrows like two Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibits, one which featured artist Renee Cox in nude form depicting Jesus and another of the Virgin Mary with an elephant dung breast.
Masters’ work was selected by a committee formed by the terminal’s developer, JFK IAT, with company executives, architects and art consultant Wendy Feuer. She has headed art programs for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. “We support the artist’s decision to revise her work in this way, and believe that all of the works of art will contribute to Terminal 4 as a passenger-friendly, pleasant travel experience,” said David Sigman, general manager for JFK IAT, which was chosen by the Port Authority to operate Terminal 4.
Masters said her murals took three years to finish after a year of sketching scenes from photographs she took around the city. “I would rather have had attention from the overall piece instead of the religious figure,” said Masters, a Catholic now working on an MTA art project for a bridge in Brooklyn. “I hope people look at [all of] it, because I really worked hard on it.” The art will be unveiled when JFK IAT holds its May 24 opening for the $1.4 billion terminal.