Exploring new territory, and materials, the exhibition will include paintings and drawings, as well as
floor sculptures made of wood and finished in platinum.
This can be seen in the large
scale floor sculpture Spread a work made of an enormous number of second hand plates, densely arranged with a strong sense of physicality.
A series of
circular floor sculptures are extensions of these wall works, arranged to suggest a latent energy: elements waiting to be activated.
Last weekend during open gallery hours, I walked in to find five wall pieces and a
major floor sculpture missing.
An accompanying
wooden floor sculpture, the missing structural peak of the outdoor barn, is also a carrying case for the painting.
Created entirely from materials found in nature, this exhibition will feature Milkstone, 1987 — 2001, a hand polished slab of marble with a shallow indentation onto which a fresh layer of milk is poured; and Rice House, 2002, a four - foot long marble
floor sculpture in the shape of a house surrounded by mounds of white rice.
They are coupled with a Carl
Andre floor sculpture, a link that makes little sense except that both form grids.
Sculptor Larry Bell is best known for his glass cubes mounted on transparent pedestals, but the McNay has an untitled
floor sculpture with unfolding triangular shapes.
A show at the Turner Contemporary in Margate by Andre, an American sculptor who is still alive and came to the fore with his
minimalist floor sculptures made from bricks that caused a furore when they were bought by the Tate Modern, years ago.
The exhibition will feature works by the American masters of the Conceptual and Minimal movements, including one of the first Richard Serra lead
floor sculptures from 1968, one of Donald Judd's earliest Cor - ten steel stacks and key works by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback and Richard Tuttle.
Yau writes: «it seems to me that Plimack - Mangold's early investigations of space should be credited with initiating a dialogue in opposition to Frank Stella's stripe paintings, which squeezed space out of paintings altogether, and the flat, grid -
like floor sculptures that Carl Andre began after 1965.»
Both the reflecting surface on the wall and the elongated
floor sculpture evoke a body through fragments, allusions, and lacunae.
«The New Ambidextrous Universe IV», 2014, is one of two plywood and
aluminium floor sculptures, water jet - cut in rippling slats to resemble a still pond disturbed by a stone.
While those colors are flashing, imagine the reductive color fields of Marcia Hafif, the macro-pointillist compositions of Alma Thomas, the undulating geometries of Bridget Riley, the
dyed floor sculptures of Polly Apfelbaum — and make your own list while you're at it.
In larger, more comprehensive surveys, in which these smaller works have been grouped together with Judd's hefty dazzling
floor sculptures such as his aluminum boxes, the stacks have risked appearing as one and the same, according to Mnuchin.
The non-hierarchical treatment of color in Donald Judd's Menziken wall sculpture (Untitled, 1988) stems from Mondrian's experimental attempts to balance primaries according to scale, while Carl Andre's
shimmering floor sculptures (Copper Sum Five, 2006 and Fifth Aluminum Cardinal, 1978) remove the hierarchy of display, creating infinite points of view.
In 1991 she gained her doctorate under the supervision of Prof. Eduard Trier with a thesis
on floor sculpture.
The gleaming platinum material recalls Yves Klein's intense and opulent works, or Carl Andre's shimmering
copper floor sculptures.
Here one does best to defer an encounter with de Maria's
central floor sculpture until later, so that it serves first as a point of orientation for other, repeated discoveries, rather than a deadening mall.
New York - based Polly Apfelbaum presents her signature
fabric floor sculptures, which morph nature and culture into bold abstract forms.
The free -
standing floor sculpture «Floater» has a brilliant, pthalo - blue - and - grey composition with a bull's - eye running through its center.
Returning to the central, almost figural form in the work, its contraposto exposing a skeletal armature that reminded me not only of the macabre
Giacometti floor sculpture often called The Rape but of the large grisaille anti-war statement Picasso painted in June and July of 1945, The Charnel House.
A breakthrough in her practice at this time was combining imported sand and soil — from different locations significant to her including Cuba, the Nile in Egypt, and the Red Sea — with different binding materials to create
indoor floor sculptures that carried the energy of these places.
For the gallery's debut Jan. 31, the only other artist to share the space with LeWitt is Tara Donovan, whose 2009 «Untitled (Toothpicks)» will be on view among two
LeWitt floor sculptures, one LeWitt hanging sculpture and a LeWitt mural.
Roman Gysin, in the Monte Vista Projects / Å + project space created a minute, yet
expansive floor sculpture of tiny pointed cylindrical shapes, above which a thin rope sculpture is suspended.
In addition to the wall drawing, Khan's
stunning floor sculpture, Seven Times, was installed in the museum's majestic Great Court.
- TBG Also worth seeing is a
new floor sculpture by gallery artist Sarah Sze, who will represent the United States at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013.
A new series of ceramic floor works referred to as «code poems» gather a range of references to the interaction of visual form and language, namely a nod to the American L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poetics through an appropriation of Hannah Weiner's experimental text Morse Code (2002), as well as the spatial elegance of Carl Andre's
minimal floor sculptures.
Included are previously unseen early Minimalist works and «turning points» from the artist's personal collection, as well as selections from such major series as the Irregular Polygons and Protractor paintings of the 1960s, the Polish Village and Circuits series of the 1970s and 1980s, and the metal reliefs and
monumental floor sculptures of the last two decades.
Honert then translated this symbol into plaster, with a later work evolving into a three -
dimensional floor sculpture of painted and illuminated resin.
Her charcoal drawings serve as studies for the iconic
1970s floor sculptures, utilizing braiding and weaving, referencing women's traditional arts; her recent «Grommetypes» puncture and mold paper with ink and watercolor.
Illuminating in the main gallery was the juxtaposition of Fernandez's white square
reflecting floor sculpture against Morris's steely gray but gently circular wall piece, titled Observatory (1972).
Visitors see the first -
floor sculpture studio, renovated in 1963 by the artist; temporary exhibition on the 2nd floor; and on the 3rd floor, the living and dining space featuring over 200 works from Gross's extensive global art collection, including important American paintings by Marsden Hartley, Willem De Kooning, Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence and many others, installed by the artist and preserved as he had it during his lifetime.
The exhibition features a 1,800 - square -
foot floor sculpture, «Color Field,» made up of Lou's characteristic «blades» of grass in a variety of striking colors shimmering across the floor like a Tetris board.
The show at MOCA gives a detailed overview of aesthetic shifts happening during Andre's career, including the most
important floor sculptures and modular arrangements made of brick stacks, slabs, and timber blocks.
Water becomes the focused resource in Harlan's 10 x 10 foot eponymously titled brick basin, and Shingles, made from translucent roofing tiles, is metaphorically turned on its head to create a
sensual floor sculpture, which playfully — and purposefully — recalls the work of the Minimalist master Carl Andre.