Robert Morris, Detail of Felt, 1967.
Robert Morris, Detail of Felt, 1967.
Ideas in Sculpture 1965-1977, Installation View, 1977.
Ideas in Sculpture 1965-1977, Installation View, 1977.
Joel Shapiro, Untitled (8 parts), 1976.
Jackie Winsor, 1 Rope, 1976.
Sol LeWitt, Installation of 6 Unit Cube, 1976.
Sol LeWitt, 6 Unit Cube, 1976.
Claes Oldenburg, Geometric Mouse-Scale B, 1971.
Carl Andre, Seventeenth Copper Cardinal, 1977.
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1972.
Mark Di Suvero, Guawala, 1977.
H.C. Westerman, The Deerslayer, 1969.
Ideas in Sculpture 1965-1977, Installation View, 1977.
Sol LeWitt, 6 Unit Cube, 1976.
Sol LeWitt, 6 Unit Cube, 1976.
Bruce Nauman, Untitled, 1965.
Robert Morris, Felt, 1967.
Robert Morris, Detail of Felt, 1967.
Ideas in Sculpture 1965-1977, Installation View, 1977.
Ideas in Sculpture 1965-1977, Installation View, 1977.
Carl Andre, Seventh Copper Cardinal, 1977.
Carl Andre, Seventh Copper Cardinal, 1977.
Richard Tuttle, Untitled, 1967.
Eva Hesse, Sans II, 1968.
This exhibition reviews the on-going redefinition and redirection of sculpture in America since 1965. The selected group of sculpture illustrates significant re-examination of traditional sculptural concerns that have resulted in sometimes startling, often baffling, but always provocative solutions. As in the past, sculptures occasionally rest on pedestals, but more often they lie on the floor, lean in corners and hug the wall. Tradtional sculpture materials—for example, wood, steel, and bronze—are often supplanted by new media—fluorescent light, cloth, fiberglass, formica, and felt.
Major trends are represented: Minimalism by Donald Judd and Dan Flavin; Conceptualism by Bruce Nauman and Sol LeWitt; Post-Minimal/Anti-Formalism by Robert Morris. Also included are artists who have evolved very personal styles: Eva Hesse, H.C. Westerman, Jackie Winsor and Joel Shapiro.
