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The bronze piece was an attenuated form that leans over a walkway and its near-falling form is viewed as an energizing element in the museum's courtyard. This sculpture, like all of Shapiro's mature works, are untitled. Shapiro is Jewish and Jewish traditions have influenced his art works, including his frequent use of the color blue.
Subverting the distinctions between abstraction and representation, Joel Shapiro reconsiders the modern figurative tradition. Shapiro creates abstract geometric sculpture that elicits a sense of movement and engages viewers’ physical and psychological relationships with space.
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.
Joel Shapiro is an American artist best known for his wooden sculptures of abstracted human forms. View Joel Shapiro’s 804 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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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.
He receives frequent commissions to create public sculptures, including works at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, among many others. Shapiro currently lives and works in New York.
This untitled piece (assigned the reference number JS 385) is perhaps Shapiro’s most straightforwardly representational sculpture. It evokes both Degas’ ballerina figurines and David Smith’s “Cubi” sculptures, 1961–65, as well as the pictographic symbols on international airport signage.
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