This is what sculpture looks like
June 14 - August 2, 2014
There are too many painting shows.
There aren't enough sculpture shows.
We are fixing that.
Sixteen artists.
Sculpture has suffered negation in the discourse and the marketplace.
For Rosalind Krauss it was both not-architecture ["what was on or in front
of a building that was not the building,'] and not-landscape ["what was in
the landscape that was not the landscape."] For Ad Reinhardt sculpture was
not-painting: Something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Modernism and postmodernism aggrandized the painting, the mark, the brush, the
gesture, rendering sculpture's critical presence invisible, its space a void.
In the Internet age, painting and photography slide in and out of JPEGs while
sculpture is left behind IRL, its simulacra always giving the digital game away.
By now we can't deny it: the critical theories we have erected have proved
impotent when confronting the fertile field of sculpture as it is practiced today.
Artists are making sculptures with all the overlooked verbs on Richard Serra's
list (*). Sculpture exists in and defines not just physical space, but psychic space,
conceptual space, political space. And not just space, but our presence in it, our
relationship to it, our movement through it, our responsibility for it.
Sculpture is physical, at once a thing, the space around it, and an image, a full-spectrum
experience imprinted on the brain and the body of the viewer.
Rachel Beach
Caitlin Cherry
Monica Cook
Diana Cooper
Molly Crabapple
Daria Irincheeva
Natalie Jeremijenko
Saeri Kiritani
Joanna Malinowska
Michelle Matson
Rachel Mason
Esperanza Mayobre
Brenna Murphy
Kate Ostler
Shinique Smith
Katie Torn
(*) http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/10/20/to-collect
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This is what sculpture looks like installation view |
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This is what sculpture looks like installation view |
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This is what sculpture looks like installation view |
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Joanna Malinowska Genre scene with a fountain 2014 vinyl, foam, paper, plaster, shellac, tv monitor video, black and white, no sound running time: 5 min loop dimensions variable |
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Brenna Murphy Glyph Garland Resonator 2014 plexiglass, digital print, MDF, paint, 3D printed plastic resin 48 x 109 inches |
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Katie Torn Aunt Lizzie 2014 pigment on paper 53 × 38 inches |
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Shinique Smith Soul Elsewhere 2013 artist's clothing, fiber-fill and rope 38.5 x 18 14 inches |
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Natalie Jeremijenko MUSCLExCHOIR Performing Live! 2014 blue mussels (Mylilus edulis) - each with an IP address, magnets, hall effect sensor, instant ocean, live rock with coraelline algae, acrylic, tubes, wild observatories and visualight.org app to change the lights. dimensions variable |
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Daria Irincheeva Evening Composition #017 2014 paint samples, wood, contact paper, brick, glossy laque, tape, airplants dimension variable |
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Diana Cooper Cubicle 2014 digital prints, vinyl, plastic gutter guards, stainless steel spikes, plastic, acrylic paint, felt tip markers, vinyl tape, wood, metal hardware, numbered map pins and corrugated plastic 74 x 74 x 70 inches |
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Rachel Mason Amy Sedaris and PJ Harvey 2014 polymer clay, acrylic paint, repurposed porcelain doll bodies, synthetic doll hair, fabric, mirror, hot glue 15 x 8.5 x 4 inches and 16 x 8.5 x 4 inches respectively |
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Monica Cook Phosphene 2014 aqua resin, urethane resin, plaster, steel, acrylic paint, urethane, urine, salt, barnacles, sea grass, copper, silicone, train modelturf, powder pigment, blood, bleach, magic sculpt, wax, plastic skeleton, ceramic teeth, silver tooth cap, wire, oil paint, soot, buoy 56 x 84 x 45 inches |
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Caitlin Cherry Mute City, Big Blue, Port Town 2014 swimming pool (wood, ceramic tiles, plexiglass, water, chlorine) mounted over painting (oil on canvas) 87 x 79.5 x 12 inches |
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Saeri Kiritani 100 pounds of rice 2013 rice, rice noodle, elmer's glue, epoxy glue, wood and metal sticks 84 x 60 inches |
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Esperanza Mayobre Hueco, palo, bloque, antena (or the story of a Golindano antenna) 2014 wood, hydrocal, silkscreen, photograph, paint 10 ft x 11 ft x 9 ft 5 inches |
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Molly Crabapple Portraits of myself and Lola Montes with things said about us by our contemporaries 2014 acrylic on wood 60 x 80 x 40 inches |
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Kate Ostler Workers Protest Platters 2013-14 17 plattersglazed ceramics dimensions variable by piece |
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Rachel Beach Hull and Demi 2014 both: oil, acrylic plywood, metal stand 78 x 24 x 17.5 inches each |
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Michelle Matson Untitled 2014 wood, sheetrock, latex, paint, graphite, glue, plaster, Styrofoam, acid free colored paper and colored pencil 74 x 50 x 36 inches |