Another important artist in this circle was Richard Serra, who created large - scale
sculptures out of sheet metal which, in using industrial sheet metal, functioned as a subversive critique of its dominance.
Not exact matches
Starting
out with vast
sheets of pure colour in huge trays on his studio floor, his finished works are something between painting and
sculpture, a joyous celebration
of colour and material.
For those who don't know, your paintings are essentially made
out of paint you pour into
sheets, and from that you also make
sculptures.
Amidst the more self - contained
sculpture, Michael Burke carves his five page «book»
out of sheet metal, like a stack
of silver canvas by Jacob Kassay.
Other artworks to keep an eye
out for are less political in nature, including 3 - D paper
sculptures by Bodys Isek Kingelez at the Museum
of Modern Art; Andy Warhol's «Green Coca - Cola Bottles» at the Whitney Museum
of American Art; a personal archive
of 400 objects belonging to David Bowie, including his costumes and lyrics
sheets, at the Brooklyn Museum; and an exhibit
of photography by younger artists at MoMA.
«Two
Sheets Thick,» Aaron Curry's recent show
of sculpture, collage, and painting, uses this trick liberally as if to articulate (or scream
out loud) the «hotness»
of his formal choices.
Calder's mechanized works gave way to his mobiles and stabiles,
sculptures whose disparate metal elements — made from bent wire and flat
sheet metal cut -
outs — were constructed with such masterful equipoise that their movements occurred naturally and unpredictably in response to the energy
of the surrounding atmosphere.
Creating
sculptures out of materials such as
sheets of glass, foam, metal, cement, and various found objects, Dave Hardy composes his
sculptures» seemingly precarious poise as an intentionally engineered defiance
of gravity.
Installed amongst athletic bronze nudes in the upstairs
sculpture garden were three digital prints on thin aluminium
sheets by Katja Novitskova: Approximation (Toucan)(all her works are from 2014), is a giant bust
of a bird, and two works from the series «Branching (green forest)» are cut -
outs of trees against sky.
Following that series the artist began to move increasingly in the direction
of painted relief
sculpture, initially with the collage works
of the Polish Village series, and then to early painted reliefs made from
sheets of honeycomb aluminum such as Talladega (1980) from the Indian Bird series — an orgy
of writhing cut -
out forms covered with pretty high - key colors and glitter.