It’s no coincidence that the Museum of Modern Art has dedicated the better part of the year and a tremendous amount of exhibition space to two major American sculptors: first Richard Serra, and now Martin Puryear, whose work is the subject of a retrospective. Minimalism provided both artists with a springboard for art that went Read More
Gabriel Kohn occupies a quizzical, almost willfully marginal patch of artistic terrain. The artist died three decades ago, but I’d never heard his name prior to coming across four of his pieces in An Intuitive View, a somewhat perfunctory array of sculpture culled from the storage lockers at the McKee Gallery. Yet Kohn fairly steals Read More
Gabriel Kohn occupies a quizzical, almost willfully marginal patch of artistic terrain. The artist died three decades ago, but I’d never heard his name prior to coming across four of his pieces in An Intuitive View, a somewhat perfunctory array of sculpture culled from the storage lockers at the McKee Gallery. Yet Kohn fairly steals Read More
Newly Contrarian Puryear:
His Best Sticks in the Craw
Deadeye (2002) is the title of the first thing we see upon entering the McKee Gallery, which is currently hosting an exhibition of four sculptures by Martin Puryear. Made of pine, Mr. Puryear’s dimpled biomorph is immaculately crafted, thoroughly considered and streamlined in its eccentricity. Read More
