This is represented in «Why Pictures Now» by objects Lawler produced while working with, or for, others: promotional materials from exhibitions and events she organized with Levine under the moniker A Picture Is No Substitute for Anything, production stills she took for a film by Lawrence Weiner, a business card she designed for Dan Graham,
bronze wall reliefs she made with Allan McCollum.
The exhibition brings together two large works on leaded panels of glass — two naked female figures seated in profile, impassive, emitting shooting stars — a series of delicate aquatint etchings, large
bronze wall reliefs and a suspended sculpture, the shadows of which transform the gallery into a barely perceptible dabbled glade, along with a stunning jacquard tapestry depicting two eagles in descent against a chalky sky.
On one wall, for example, one of the small photographs — a solarized gelatin silver print with a mysterious abstract composition — is juxtaposed near a tall
bronze wall relief.
Not exact matches
On the
wall ahead, a dazzling
bronze - on - gold
relief represents a kneeling angel offering the chalice in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Gangs of looters, numbering sometimes in the hundreds, have pilfered cylinder seals, sculptures, urns,
bronze tools, clay tablets with cuneiform writing, and even
reliefs carved into
walls — all to supply an illegal international trade in antiquities that stretches from Taiwan to New York.
In the
wall - constructions she fuses
relief elements, such as exposed structural fragments or sand - cast
bronze, shaped by the physical process of the pour.
Stella has several other works in the auction including Lot 201, «Playskool Bobbin,» a 35 3/4 - by -47-by-33 1/4 - inch
wall relief of acrylic on cast
bronze, wood, etched honeycomb aluminum, fiberglass, balsa wood laminate, plastic and masking tape.
The New Jeff Koons 1980 duratran, fluorescent lightbox 42 x 32 x 8 inches Courtesy the Stephanie and Peter Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT New Hoover Celebrity IV, New Hoover Convertible, New Shelton Wet / Dry 5 - Gallon, New Shelton Wet / Dry 10 - Gallon Doubledecker Four vacuum cleaners, 1985 plexiglas, fluorescent lights 99 x 53 1⁄2 x 28 inches Courtesy the Stephanie and Peter Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT Aqualung 1985
bronze Edition 1 of 3 27 x 17 1⁄2 x 17 1⁄2 inches Private collection One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series) 1985 glass, steel, sodium chloride reagent, distilled water, basketball Edition 1 of 2 64 3⁄4 x 30 3⁄4 x 13 1⁄4 inches Courtesy the Stephanie and Peter Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT Three Balls 50/50 Tank (Wilson Aggressor, Wilson Supershot, Dr. J Silver Series) 1985 glass, steel, distilled water, three basketballs Edition 2 of 2 60 1⁄2 x 48 3⁄4 x 13 1⁄4 inches Private collection Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train 1986 stainless steel, bourbon Artist's Proof 11 x 114 x 6 1⁄2 inches Stefan T. Edlis collection I Assume You Drink Martell 1986 oil inks on canvas Edition 1 of 2 45 x 60 inches Private collection Italian Woman 1986 stainless steel Edition 1 of 3 30 x 18 x 11 inches Courtesy Leo Castelli Gallery Rabbit 1986 stainless steel Edition 3 of 3 41 x 19 x 12 inches Sonnabend collection Buster Keaton 1988 polychromed wood Edition 2 of 3 65 3⁄4 x 50 x 26 1⁄2 inches C&M Arts Michael Jackson and Bubbles 1988 porcelain / ceramic blend Edition 2 of 3 42 x 70 1⁄2 x 32 1⁄2 inches San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, purchased through the Marian and Bernard Messenger Fund and restricted funds Pink Panther 1988 porcelain Edition 3 of 3 41 x 20 1⁄2 x 19 inches Courtesy the Stephanie and Peter Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT St. John the Baptist 1988 porcelain Edition 3 of 3 56 1⁄2 x 30 x 24 1⁄2 inches Courtesy Sonnabend Gallery Ushering in Banality 1988 polychromed wood Edition 2 of 3 38 x 62 x 30 inches Private collection Vase of Flowers 1988 mirror 72 1⁄2 x 53 x 1 inches Collection of Michael Crichton, courtesy of Christie's Wild Boy and Puppy 1988 porcelain Edition 1 of 3 38 x 39 1⁄2 x 23 1⁄2 inches C&M Arts Winter Bears 1988 polychromed wood Edition 2 of 3 48 x 44 x 15 1⁄2 inches Anthony d'Offay, London Woman in Tub 1988 porcelain Edition 3 of 3 23 3⁄4 x 36 x 27 inches Courtesy the Stephanie and Peter Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT Bourgeois Bust - Jeff and Ilona 1991 marble Artist's Proof 44 1⁄2 x 28 x 21 inches Anthony d'Offay, London Dirty - Jeff on Top 1991 oil inks silkscreened on canvas 60 x 90 inches Collection of Rachel and Jean - Pierre Lehmann
Wall Relief with Bird 1991 polychromed wood Edition 2 of 3 72 x 50 x 27 inches C&M Arts Balloon Dog (Orange) 1994 - 2000 high chromium stainless steel, mirror - polished finish with transparent color coating 120 x 144 x 45 inches Courtesy the Stephanie and Peter Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT Bread with Egg 1995 - 1997 oil on canvas 128 x 108 inches Courtesy the Stephanie and Peter Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT Play - Doh 1995 - 2004 oil on canvas 131 5⁄16 x 111 1⁄16 inches Private collection Auto 2001 oil on canvas 102 x 138 inches Courtesy the Stephanie and Peter Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT Lobster 2003 polychromed aluminum, steel, vinyl Edition 1 of 3 57 7⁄8 x 17 1⁄8 x 37 inches (plus variable length chain) Private collection, courtesy Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services Elvis 2003 oil on canvas 108 x 93 inches Stefan T. Edlis collection
Three new bodies of work will be unveiled in Anytime Anywhere —
bronze sculpture, paintings and 3D routed
wall reliefs.
Australian Michael Staniak's «Anytime, Anywhere» includes
bronze sculptures, 3D
wall reliefs and paintings that add up to a bold, geometric and visually mesmerizing series of works.
The
walls are hung with
bronze reliefs and ceramic tiles coated with a black soap - and - wax mixture.
Known to many for his monumental
bronze tree installed in the Karlsaue Park for dOCUMENTA (13), Germinazione (Germination), 2001 is a dramatically beautiful, all - white
wall relief of a branch incased within resin and steel and suspended from wire.
This work is comprised of a
wall - mounted wood and
bronze relief affixed with 34 colored objects.