Welded steel, 1997. Nonextant. A stage is a raised platform for performance and also one phase of a longer progression, and the sculpture is built around the first meaning. A long flat plate overhangs a deep recess with a plain back wall, and the plate and the framing posts make an opening that reads as … Continue reading Stage
Welded steel, 1997. “Crucible” names a vessel that survives what it contains. It holds metal at melting temperature, and the word also means a trial severe enough to change whatever is put through it. The sculpture is a small, deep bowl with a long rod set into its side, and the proportions say what the … Continue reading Crucible
Welded steel, 1997. Nonextant. A shrine is a structure built to house something venerated, with a side by which it’s approached and a place inside where the object is kept. The sculpture has those parts and no object. At the left, a bay stands open to the viewer, framed by uprights with a floor plate … Continue reading Shrine
Welded steel, 1997. In art-historical usage, “after” marks a work made in response to an earlier artist’s: a painting after Poussin, a print after Rembrandt. The title puts a city where the name would go. The city is London as the artist first met it, through the Tate’s galleries, so the sculpture reads as a … Continue reading After London
Welded steel, 58 x 23 x 27, 1996.
