Chris Antemann's figural porcelain vignettes, such as her 2007 piece Gather, are naughty, full of quasi-18th-century harlots and housemaids cavorting with naked suitors.
It's funny, selling her work," says Leslie Ferrin, one of her dealers. "Viewers approach it thinking it's some sort of [innocuous] figurine. They end up tongue-tied." No wonder people who buy one often tuck it away in a private spot in the master bedroom or bath.
