Tender little monsters

Alison Ye calls her sculptures whimsical creatures, and they are, but they are also emotive, vulnerable, sweet, endearing and anthropomorphized chimeras. Her ceramic sculptures are exquisitely articulated, and act as proxies for the artist’s personal stories of heartbreak in her series Pain, Recovery and Loving Again. Ye’s tender, naive and melancholy monsters look like they’ve walked out of an illustrated children’s book, and their stories are universal: the struggles of the heart. She’ll be showing some of her “odd creatures” at Fe Gallery along with flower-haloed paintings by Skye Becker-Yamakawa; ethereal and vivid abstract paintings by Heather Robinson; abstract pop by Sid Wellman; and mixed media by the latter’s spouse, Donine Wellman.