Not exact matches
The project space's first few shows have focused on
younger black artists who have had little market exposure,
such as the Yale MFA student Vaughn Spann and painter and
sculptor Leonardo Benzant, subjects of the current show «Homeostasis,» curated by black curator and Aljira Center director Dexter Wimberly.
«There's
such excitement in the district, especially among
younger people and this gallery may inspire a new generation, not just of painters and
sculptors but architects.»
Conceptual art, the show argues, was created by
young artists impatient with the modernist abstraction of the previous generation, typified by
sculptors such as Anthony Caro and Phillip King.
The gallery has also hosted exhibitions with artists of older generations
such as Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gianfranco Pardi and represents the works of British conceptual artist Stephen Willats, American feminist artist Mary Beth Edelson and Syrian born painter and
sculptor Simone Fattal who have been showing since the 1960's and have greatly influenced many of the
younger generation of artists.
The formidable
young sculptor and MacArthur recipient Sarah Sze fashions whole ecosystems from tiny pieces of detritus, addressing serious topics
such as overconsumption and sustainability while supplying viewers with moments of whimsy and delight.
For certain
young American
sculptors, however, work
such as Caro's seemed to embody limiting «European» aesthetic precepts.
Ultimately it would be the work of slightly
younger sculptors,
such as Mark DiSuvero and John Chamberlain, to match the expansive drama of Abstract Expressionist painting.
By 1985, the year after she moved into the building on West 57th Street that still houses her gallery, her program was strongly focused around post-minimalist, conceptual work, with Italian Arte Povera
sculptors such as Giuseppe Penone and Giulio Paolini, and a lot of
young Germans, including the installation artist Lothar Baumgarten, a former student of Beuys, and the then little - known painters Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter.
On display are works by the most widely known
sculptors of the 20th century
such as Joan Miro, Donald Judd, George Segal, John Chamberlain, by celebrated contemporary artists
such as Olafur Eliasson, Ernesto Neto, Jason Rhoades, and
young 21st century artists
such as Mark Dion, Will Ryman, and Florian Baudrexel.