Garth Evans "1980's Plywood Wall Sculptures"

Lori Bookstein Fine Art

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Lori Bookstein Fine Art presents a body of wall-mounted sculptures by Garth Evans made during the early 1980s. Evans, a British-born sculptor who gained a reputation in England for abstract, often floor-bound minimalist work, moved to the United States in 1979 and has been rethinking the language of abstraction since. The plywood works on view explore abstract geometric form in small, concentrated nuggets affixed flush to the wall. Despite their strict linearity, the works suggest movement and evoke underlying forms, although all associations are left open-ended for the viewer.

The carefully executed surfaces, particular to each sculpture, heighten both the object-ness of each work and its individual personality. Painted, rubbed and sanded patinas reveal the sensuousness of the artist’s hand. (In addition to his work in sculpture, a significant portion of Evans’s career has been dedicated to work on paper. His watercolors, previously exhibited at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, have a sculptural dimension which relates directly to the forms and colors of these plywood works.) In the current issue of Sculpture, the critic Janet Koplos highlights the paradoxical nature of the artist’s methods – the interplay between the importance of form and the attention to surface, the organic versus inorganic elements present in his work – explaining that “these shifts, these subtleties, make Evans’s work a treasury: every viewer can find a set of allusions or associations or issues, and the work (as the best art always is) is open enough to be available to endless re-understanding. So what identifies Evans’s oeuvre is a mindset, or a way of working, in the absence of any obvious visual feature.”

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from November 03, 2010 to December 23, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-11-03 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Garth Evans

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