Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Formica and Celotex are among the odd materials employed by this enigmatic but important American painter and sculptor. Through...
...bachelor sculptor of Celestial Navigation (1974), for example, panics if he has to go to the grocery store. The unhappy wife in Earthly Possessions (1977) plans to leave her husband but is relieved of the decision when she is kidnaped during a bank holdup. The eccentric hero of Morgan's Passing (1980) handles the problem of freedom not with flight but with flamboyant masquerades. The poignant conceit of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) is a beanery that resembles a kitchen where lonely people can assemble, if only for a meal. The Accidental Tourist (1985), Tyler's most winsome expression...
Spain has the Catalan sculptor Susana Solano, 42, whose constructions of sheet iron, mesh and rods are based on the image of baths and attain a weird intensity in balancing the plain, structurally explicit means of minimalism against an atmosphere of secrecy and menace: they could be prison cells or metaphorical labyrinths...
...most impressive of all opened last month at Storm King Art Center on the Hudson River in Mountainville, N.Y., 55 miles upstream from Manhattan. It is a concise survey of the past ten years of work -- 17 sculptures, 19 powerful charcoal and oil-stick drawings -- by the British-born sculptor William Tucker, 53, who has lived in the U.S. since...
...part heir to Catalan surrealism. The son and grandson of metalsmiths, he sometimes gets a bit overrefined for American taste, but his delight in odd tropes -- like making forms in basalt that conventionally would be done in metal -- has its ! own authentic motives. He remains a very considerable sculptor...