Welded steel, 47 x 35 x 17, 2019. The parts sit in a rectangular field like marks on a page, and the work is read from the front as a sheet is read, left to right and top to bottom. Two kinds of sheet suit it: a score and a window. Read as notation, the … Continue reading Love Song (for Nola)
Painted welded steel, 110 x 52 x 24, 2014. Major Key is two objects with the same body plan, fused so that each supplies the other’s parts. A key has a bow, a shaft and a toothed bit. A guitar has a round body, a neck and a head. McCourt stands the form on its … Continue reading Major Key
Painted welded steel, 12 x 8 x 8, 2005. Solo is a room for one person. Public space is built for crowds, with sightlines, noise and constant traffic, and almost nothing in it shelters a single person. This sculpture would stand on a street or plaza at twelve feet tall and eight feet across, with … Continue reading Maquette for Solo
Painted welded steel, 12 x 10 x 11, 2005. A playhouse is two things in English: the small house built for children to play in, and the theatre. The sculpture is both at once. The entrance is a short flight of steps climbing beside tall vertical folds that hang like a curtain. Going up those … Continue reading Maquette for Playhouse
Painted welded steel, 2004. An outlook is the view from a window, a way of regarding things, and a weather forecast, and the sculpture is built to hold all three. A heavy beam rides on two unlike posts: a round column on a stepped disc and a flat blade ending in a curled foot. The … Continue reading Maquette for A Modern Outlook
