Paola Pivi and Her Baby Gang of Bears

“When I came to this gallery to see the space the first time, I had this image of many, many, many colorful baby bears,” says Paola Pivi, gazing out at the 70 brightly colored feathered polar bear sculptures situated around the entire top floor of Perrotin in the Lower East Side. “Basically, I saw this; it just came to me.” The Italian artist imagined the bears in New York, but created them in Anchorage, Alaska, where she lives with her husband, Karma Lama, and son. “We Are the Baby Gang” consists entirely of new work and builds upon her series of larger bears that she’s been creating since 2007. It’s her first show at Perrotin since her exhibition of larger bears opened its former Madison Avenue location in 2013. Just as the bears are reflective of her home state, the smaller-scale bears are also reflective of her becoming a mother. Two of the bears directly represent her son; naturally, she points to both as her favorite pieces in the exhibition. “He’s 12, so he’s preteen, and I really feel like these [bears] are also preteen, too; they’re a little bit feisty but also very, very sweet,” says Pivi of her son. She’s also

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