Martin Puryear's black, looped «Stalk» sits on a wall behind Magdalene Odundo's burnished - black and carbonized vessel and Isamu Noguchi's similarly colored, hourglass -
shaped bronze work called «Mitosis.»
Not exact matches
Yoga White
works with suspended chau gongs - also known as tam - tams; these are commonly seen in use by orchestras and are a round dish -
shaped disc of
bronze alloy.
The two
works by Isamu Noguchi, the best known of the Asian - American artists here, are from the 60s, one a signature stone
shape, in this case red travertine, and the other in cast
bronze, both smaller
works that respond to the pictorial images around them.
Shapiro is mostly known for his
works in
bronze of linked cuboidal
shapes, which read as abstract forms that play off of a likeness to the human figure.
WM: I need to really consider
shape and form when I
work in
bronze, because it is often out of your control.
Granite, iron, steel,
bronze, glass, wood, clay, plaster: Tony Cragg, one of the most widely exhibited and acclaimed British sculptors of his generation, has
worked in each of these materials, examining, exposing and showcasing their properties in his often - huge, organically
shaped works.
They may be guarding Davina Semo's tiny
work, black silicone
bronze buried in the white wall in the
shape of a diamond.
Variations on the theme of political conceptualism - meets - craft could also be seen in Jessica Stockholder's new
works at Chicago gallery Kavi Gupta, Summer Wheat's acrylic - on - aluminum - mesh paintings at New York's Fridman Gallery, and Michelle Grabner's gingham paintings and
bronzes in the
shape of woven blankets at Portland's Upfor.
One of the most dramatic installations will feature The Huntington's masterpiece of the French Enlightenment, Jean - Antoine Houdon's life - size
bronze Diana, behind which Israel's Untitled (Flat)-- a starburst -
shaped work, constructed like a set - piece, coated in stucco, and painted in hues of gold, pink, and orange — will hang.
Artists
working with
bronze or clay could
shape and reshape the material till they got it right; with stone carving, if you made a mistake, that was it.
On the outdoor terrace, the eight - foot tall
bronze work, Question, 2013 — 2014, appears to rise up like a giant twisted liquorice stick before arching over to anchor itself to the floor in a bulbous gourd -
shape.
Von Rydingsvard creates her
work from commercially milled cedar beams that are marked,
shaped by cuts into the wood, stacked, then glued together; these forms may also be used to cast sculptures in materials including urethane resin, copper, and
bronze.
His
works are made in
bronze, stone, glass, ceramic, resins or wood; they delight with their organic form, dynamics of meandering
shape, intriguing titles.
Sculptors Beth Krensky and Court Bennett both feature egg / ovoid
shaped works, beautifully
working in their signature materials (
bronze; mixed media).
Nash's metal
works explore fundamental
shapes such as the cross, or expertly mimic the surface of his charred wooden sculptures, which are then cast in
bronze.
These sessions are specifically
shaped for young people
working towards
Bronze, Silver or Gold Arts Award and anyone thinking about starting their Arts Award journey.
Cragg previously
worked as a laboratory assistant in his late teens and this inspired a series of large
bronze sculptures
shaped like laboratory flasks to be shown in the Pavilion, such as the sand - blasted
bronze piece Mother's Milk II (1988), now part of the British Council Collection.
She made these
works by digging holes in a sandbox, and filling them with molten
bronze; because the
shape of the holes differed, each sculpture is unique.
Speaking of the gallery, they have had extremely strong showings of late, and I am thinking especially of the Deborah Butterfield exhibition, which preceded the Shaw exhibition, and which also featured trompe l'oeil in her painted
bronze works mimicking wooden sticks
shaped as horses.
Skaer will also show abstract
bronze sculptures that represent natural elements like rain, snow and wind, as well as
works from her ongoing project in which she uses materials from her childhood home, configures them into abstract
shapes and embellishes them with fine materials, replacing glass window panes with lapis lazuli, for example.