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- His work was exhibited in a solo show at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 1976, at the Venice Biennial in 1976 and 1980, and at Documenta in 1977, and by 1982 he’d had his first survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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A selection of five large cast-bronze and painted cast-aluminum sculptures by the American artist Joel Shapiro (born 1941) are installed in the Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. The sculptures date from 1989 to the present; three of the five have not previously been exhibited in New York and two are newly created.
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]
In 1980, Shapiro made—or made explicit—the sculptural icon that seems the progenitor of much of his work to follow. Poised on one leg, a figure leans forward; the other leg stretches backward, one arm is extended seemingly to counterbalance it, and the other points toward the floor. This untitled piece (assigned the reference number JS 385 ...
His work was exhibited in a solo show at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 1976, at the Venice Biennial in 1976 and 1980, and at Documenta in 1977, and by 1982 he’d had his first survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
May 1 – late fall 2001 (weather permitting) The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Five sculptures by renowned American artist Joel Shapiro (born 1941) are currently on view in the 2001 installation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.
Born in New York, NY 1941 | Lives and works in New York, NY. Joel Shapiro is one of the most widely exhibited American sculptors, having spent decades patiently exploring a geometrical sculptural language that sits almost precisely at the intersection of abstraction and figuration.
Mar 14, 2013 · 5 East 73rd Street, Manhattan. Through March 23. As this elegant exhibition demonstrates, the sculptor Joel Shapiro began his career in the late 1960s, making works that reduced art to small,...
