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From Idea to Matter: Nine Sculptors
October 20-December 17, 2000 curated by Edward Albee
The sculptors in this exhibit come from all over the United States - New York, California, Texas; half of them are over fifty years old, while the others are variously younger. While none of them could be said to be household names (outside the artworld, of course), some of them have established powerful reputations, while the others are certain to do so. All of them have certain things in common - besides excellence, sureness, individuality, adventuresomeness - and paramount among them is, certainly, the "hands-on" quality of the work, the clear evidence of the artist making the art - molding, carving, melding, manipulating, intruding. There is no "theoretical" work here, no work that is merely "idea." It is all worked on, worked through idea to matter. That all the work is abstract to one degree or another merely states that it is, every piece of it, concerned with something beyond mere representation and has to do with a redefinition of the nature of representation itself. -Edward Albee September 1999 Holland. |
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