"Sculpture: Chamberlain, Cornell, Flavin, Jenney, Kusama, LeWitt, Melotti and Puryear" Exhibition
Barbara Mathes Gallery
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Barbara Mathes Gallery presents "Sculpture," a group show of three-dimensional work done in a variety of materials. The exhibition includes both American and international artists from the 1950s to the present. Beginning with Neil Jenney's Daytime Diptych (2008), the exhibition challenges the very definition of sculpture by including a work that is ostensibly painting but, as the artist insists, "must succeed in sculptural terms." A Joseph Cornell box from the 1950s captures a microcosm of the shore, reflecting one of the artist's countless flights of fancy. Martin Puryear's Untitled (Falcon) (c.1986-87) perches high in a corner, its reduced forms hewing the line between figuration and abstraction. Two works by Yayoi Kusama highlight the ever widening range of this experimental artist's practice. Fausto Melotti's pieces in copper and bronze explore the graphic properties of sculpture, achieving a kind of "drawing in space." Other artists in the show include Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, and John Chamberlain.
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Schedule
from September 24, 2009 to October 24, 2009
Artist(s)
John Chamberlain, Joseph Cornell, Dan Flavin, Neil Jenney, Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt, Fausto Melotti, Martin Puryear et al.