Louise McCagg Exhibition

A.I.R. Gallery

poster for Louise McCagg Exhibition

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Louise McCagg is presenting a large-scale floor installation, hanging structures as well as a large aluminum sculpture. McCagg has constructed a floor installation modeled after molecules and
cells, illustrating both a micro and macro cosmos. These are pentagonand hexagon-shaped sculptures that create an environment of playful three-dimensional constellations. Each sculpture carries McCagg’s signature forms: shrunken heads cast from friends and family members.

The heads are aluminum casts and are positioned as “linking knots” for the rods that form each pentagon. The second large-scale piece continues the same schema, this time as a
suspended installation. The molecules are adapted as hanging sculptures; large pentagon-shaped objects carry cast aluminum heads at intervals with wooden rods. Contact also includes a tall standing sculpture of the same materials. Here, the reduced facial forms interlock with the rods creating the impression of growing tree branches. For this new series, McCagg explores vertical human forms that have a sense of rigidity and pride.

A new monograph, Louise McCagg: Sculpture, with essays by Tracy Zwick, Patricia Rosoff and Kathleen Husler on the work of Louise McCagg is also available in conjunction with the exhibition.
McCagg lives and works in New York City and has exhibited her work throughout the United States and internationally at galleries and other venues which have included The Venice Biennale, The Sculpture Center, (New York), and Sejong Arts Festival (Seoul). McCagg’s work has been collected by major museums, universities and other institutions.

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Schedule

from October 06, 2010 to October 31, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-10-07 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Louise McCagg

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