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Joel Elias Shapiro (born September 27, 1941 New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. The artist is classified as a Minimalist as demonstrated in his works, which were mostly defined through the materials used, without allusions to subjects outside of the works. [2]
Shapiro creates abstract geometric sculpture that elicits a sense of movement and engages viewers’ physical and psychological relationships with space.
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Joel Shapiro is an American artist best known for his wooden sculptures of abstracted human forms. Blurring the line between figural sculpture and geometric abstraction, his work is comprised of painted rectangular blocks arranged in compositions that suggest representational forms in space.
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Joel Elias Shapiro (born September 27, 1941 New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes.
Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of Joel Shapiro’s sculptures at the gallery’s recently expanded space in Seoul. Spanning two floors of the gallery, the presentation spotlights a selection of the artist’s bronze works alongside smaller-scale, vibrantly colored sculptures made of wood.
ON JOEL SHAPIRO’S SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS. By Marc Fields. LOOKING AT JOEL SHAPIRO’S SCULPTURES involves a lot of walking, and certain paths—usually ones uncharacteristic of moving in a gallery—prove to be the most informative.
Shapiro, who has lived and worked in New York for the majority of his career, is known for sculpture that makes use of found and cut rectangular and square planks and beams of wood in a multitude of scales, from intimate to monumental, either leaving the elements in raw form or casting them in metal.