Charles LeDray "WORKWORKWORKWORKWORK"

The Whitney Museum of American Art

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Over the past twenty years, New York-based sculptor Charles LeDray (b. 1960, Seattle) has created a highly distinctive and powerful body of work using such materials as sewn cloth, carved human bone, and glazed ceramics. This mid-career survey, which includes works from the 1980s to the present, looks at LeDray’s achievements, not only in creating the captivating, meticulously wrought, diminutive objects he has made, but in the rigorous position he has taken as an artist, anticipating what may be seen as a return to the handmade. His techniques of sewing, carving bone, and throwing clay pots find precedents in the traditions of folk art and visionary art, yet, like the works of pioneering potter George Ohr, rise to a level of unprecedented virtuosity and artistic invention. The exhibition is curated by Randi Hopkins for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Its Whitney installation will be overseen by curator Carter Foster.
[Image: Charles LeDray, "Overcoat" (2004) Fabric, wood, metal, paint, plastic, and thread, 25 x 20 x 11 in.]

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from November 18, 2010 to February 13, 2011

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Charles LeDray

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