Welded steel, 24 x 16 x 15, 2019. A seer is defined by two faculties, seeing what others cannot and saying it. The face has the first and begins on the second: eyes opened wide and round, brows drawn up into deep furrows over an old face, a small ribbed mark between them, and lips … Continue reading The Seer
Welded steel, 9 x 27 x 11, 2019. Odalisque comes from the Turkish odalık, a woman of the room: a servant of the harem, who waited on the household. European painters from Ingres to Matisse made her a reclining nude. The sculpture keeps both figures. It lies long and low like the divans of those … Continue reading Odalisque
Welded steel, 9 x 23 x 11, 2019. The river god is one of the oldest reclining figures in sculpture: a male body laid along the ground, propped on an urn from which the river pours. Greek temple pediments put him in their corners, where the triangle narrows, and Roman sculptors gave him the Nile … Continue reading River God
Welded steel, 18 x 13 x 6, 2019. A gatekeeper decides who passes, and this one has no body apart from the gate. The upright bars that block the way are also its torso, and the limbs are bent rod welded to the same frame, so there is no one behind the barrier to appeal … Continue reading Gatekeeper
Welded painted steel, 16.5 x 14.5 x 8.5, 2019. The title is on the sculpture: the word is stamped into the hook as a manufacturer’s mark, so the name is found like the parts. A vanguard is the body that marches ahead of an army, and in the nineteenth century the French form, avant-garde, was … Continue reading Vanguard
