Tag: sculpture

Heavy Metal

Warehouse District, St Petersburg, Florida

We were planning on joining an Art Walk starting in the Warehouse District about a week and a half ago. By the time we got there it had been cancelled, the trolley garaged and the galleries shuttered. We found these compacted cubes of metal outside one of the warehouses of studios.

A couple more from Duncan McClellan

St Petersburg, Florida

I couldn’t find any placards to identify these, the top image is a set of glass globes from their students; the bottom one is a close-up of a metal sculpture in the gardens.

(These pictures were shot over a week ago – everything’s shut now and we’re complying with attempts to halt the spread of Covid-19 by not going out except for necessities).

Duncan McClellan Gallery

Kevin Gordan, Fractal Fish
Martin Rosol, Yellow CALLA #1651
Nancy Callan, tutti Frutti Top
Jack Gramann, Blue Shift

Another gallery full of (mostly) glassworks – quite remarkable!

(Needless to say, these pictures were shot over a week ago – everything’s shut now and we’re not going out except for necessities).

Glass

Wilfried Grootens, Dreamcatcher H#
Dale Chihuly
Toots Zynsky
Tim Tate, Vitruvian Visions
Kreg Kallenbeger, Titanic #32797
Christina Bothwell and Robert Bender, Siblings
Anthony James, Portal Icosahedron
Bertil Vallien, Blues

St Petersburg appears to be a home for many artists working with glass. We saw a demonstration of the art at the Morean Arts Center, all of the above were shot at the Imagine Museum and still to come is the Duncan McClellan Gallery. We haven’t made it yet to the Chihuly collection. Apologies to artists of the works above if I mis-labeled any of the works.

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Table, Shadow

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

from the Museum web site:

Table,

Costa Achillopoulo

Little is known about the designer of this table, which is both a functional piece of furniture and a fantastical Surrealist sculpture. The glass tabletop rests improbably atop small balls balanced on the tips of three delicately tapering fingers, generating a sensation of tension and unease. Disembodied hands and gloves are recurrent motifs in Surrealist art, with the left hand, in particular, symbolizing the irrational. The cloudlike element from which the hand emerges also suggests a transition from the conscious to the subconscious world.

Perfect Pie

Hales Gallery, 20th St and Eleventh Avenue, New York

Last weekend we went down to the Zwirner Galleries to see Hilton Als’ exhibition on James Baldwin, long a hero of mine for The Fire Next Time and Go Tell It on The Mountain. Watching old YouTube videos of him in debates or on talk shows is another good way to see his rhetorical brilliance displayed and enjoy watching his white interlocutors squirm. Unfortunately we went down on the last afternoon and the place was packed (with old white people) making it almost impossible to appreciate the exhibit. In particular it was hard to get to the tiny explanatory placards here and there to understand the context, so we abandoned it and went into a number of other Chelsea galleries.

I confess to a certain Philistinism when it comes to this kind of work (Richard Slee’s Perfect Pie at Hales Gallery).

Rebirth

Rebirth by Kang Muxiang

“In Rebirth, artist Kang Muxiang combines traditional craftsmanship with contemporary artistic elements, transforming discarded steel elevator cables into natural, embryonic forms symbolizing the beauty of coexistence between mankind and the earth,” according to a sign posted near these sculptures.

36th St and Broadway, New York

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Chihuly I

Dale Chihuly

Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade… more

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