NYAB Event - Tony Smith "Bronze"

Tony Smith "Bronze"

Matthew Marks Gallery 523 W 24th St.

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Smith executed the nine sculptures included in this exhibition between 1960 and 1970. This selection of his works in bronze, all of them finished in his signature black patina, provides a comprehensive view of his mature sculptural practice over the course of the 1960s.
Smith came to sculpture late in life. Born in 1912, he supported himself and his family as an architect for twenty years but began to focus on painting in the mid-1950s, turning to sculpture later in the decade. Smith began work on the earliest piece in this exhibition, Cross, in 1960, two years before he made Die, a 6’ steel cube that established his reputation as one of the most influential and important artists of his time. Cross can be understood as a link between his architectural and sculptural practices. The sculpture’s arrangement of six cubes located at the vertices of three intersecting rhombi resembles two perpendicular church crosses with a shared vertical stem. One of Smith’s final architectural projects was an unrealized plan for a church that was to have stained-glass panels designed in collaboration with his friend, Jackson Pollock.

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