Her Art Is Way, WAY Out!

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM AND SUN
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1959

Her Art Is Way, WAY Out!

By HOPE JOHNSON

One American housewife in complete orbit today is Mrs. Carol Safer of Westport Conn., a space art pioneer who believes that the artist who looks into his inner world can predict what the outer world will be like.

Mrs. Safer's abstract three dimensional work, "Man in Space," "Two Sputniks and a Flying Saucer" and "Ridges of the Moon," to name but a few, is now so far out it's way in, even with the Russians.

A member of the Russian Mission to the U.N. yesterday morning formally accepted a gift of one of Mrs. Safer's more recent projections, "Moon and Evening Sky," which she describes as "symbolic of peace in outer space."

Presentation Tomorrow.
Mrs. Safer will make the presentation to New York's most talked about guest or a member of his party sometime today. "Art is a universal language," the 33-year-old Paris-trained artist and former sculptor explained yesterday. "Mr. Khrushchev has expressed an interest in peace and Russian artists are just beginning to discover abstract art. I understand he has brought some artists in his party to study ours. Because my art is related to science, I thought it might give him a better understanding of the form."

Mrs. Safer said the idea of interesting the premier in the abstract through painted meteors hit her the way the Soviet rocket hit the moon last Sunday, in fact, at the very same time. She was sitting in front of her TV set writing invitations to her one-women showing which opens at the Chase Gallery, 31 E 64th Street, when she decided to send one to Mr. Khrushchev.

Addressed in Russian.
"I addressed it in Russian. I majored in Russian in college because I thought I wanted to be a foreign correspondent. before I went to Paris to study, I translated Doestovsky novels." (In Paris she studied under Fernand Leger; she has written a book on Matisse.)

First Mrs. Safer was advised that her showing would be included on the premier's sightseeing trip. Then the painting was accepted.

The way Mrs. Safer sees it, there is a direct connection between space and the abstract. Abstract art is all a problem of space. Man in space and form in space are related.

No Science Buff.
Never a science buff, Mrs. Safer, who is married to the information director of CBS' space research recovering system, first discovered she was space-oriented earlier this year. "At the American Federation of Artists Convention--the theme was the Artist in an Age of Science--I discovered what I was doing. The artist unconsciously reflects the impact of his age. new forms of expression must be created to make this cosmic statement. In this case, intuition anticipates the actual discovery."

Feature of Mrs. Safer's exhibit is a 3x9-foot work of wire clay, sand, oil and plastic spray paint on wood which she calls "Man in Space." The first way-out picture was "Ridges of the Moon."

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