Judy Pfaff (a wall and
floor scatter piece that counters Reed's constraint with a kind of dissociative formalism — every time I see a photo of one of Pfaff's forever vanished early installations, I have to catch my breath)
Not exact matches
One of the first curiosities half the group stumbles upon is a samurai who's literally in
pieces, his face
scattered in chunks across the
floor of a holding cell.
In the mid-20th Century shared unreality that was «Caroland» it was somehow viable, with intentions that were quite probably on the right side of honest, to make a sculpture — in this case, Stainless
Piece C, 1974/5 — that sat flat on the
floor and rose up no more than a couple of inches, so you looked down upon it like a relief laid horizontally (I made a few like this myself); and to make it out of a few
scattered (or were they artfully composed?)
Scattered around were a number of wall and
floor pieces — the well - known automobile parts crammed and jammed into muscular, abstract conglomerates, lacquered metal shards, a big twisted urethane foam work from 1966, and a room filled with the newer collapsed galvanized zinc sculptures made from
It is hanging or lying, branching, sprawling in the room, sometimes crumbled to
pieces and
scattered over the
floor.
Appropriately for a room in which wheat would have been beaten to loosen the husks of grain, the
floor beneath is
scattered with a rag - tag confetti of fallen
pieces, petals and rice replaced by the synthetic brightness of cheap cloth.
In a
floor piece called Mine, Smith
scatters 3D red glass stars.
But the most striking embodiment of this theme has to be the Carl Andre
floor pieces scattered throughout the fair, with exceptional examples to be found at Sperone Westwater (which dedicated its booth to the artist), Simon Lee Gallery, and Conrad Fischer.
He became one of the first so - called «Process» artists in 1966 with his «
scatter pieces,» made by
scattering seemingly random scraps on the
floor of otherwise empty rooms.
True to its title, the exhibition format seems «collapsed» here, leaving
pieces scattered on the
floor and flung on the walls.