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Sculptor Joel Shapiro (American, b.1941) creates compelling wooden sculptures of human forms, embracing an aesthetic that lies between figuration and abstraction. Born in New York, Shapiro originally intended to be a physician and studied science as an undergraduate at New York University. After serving in the Peace Corps in India for two years ...
Joel Shapiro. November 4 – December 23, 2021. 524 W 26th Street. Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to announce a special exhibition focusing on Joel Shapiro’s exploration of color, spanning historic works on paper to new sculptures completed this year. In the largest gallery and the front window, irregular geometric volumes are placed on the ...
JOEL SHAPIRO IS THIRTY-TWO and has been exhibiting regularly since 1969. His work calls to mind the essay, “Film and the New Psychology,” in which Maurice Merleau-Ponty points out that we are always aware of a cube’s six sides even though we can never see more than three of them at once.
The Dallas Morning News | Joel Shapiro’s 20 Elements serves as a sublime entry point to his very cool show at the Nasher June 4, 2016 When one enters the Nasher Sculpture Center these days, there is an immediate sense of familiarity.
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. Shapiro first came to widespread public attention in the early ...
Mar 14, 2013 · Joel Shapiro: ‘Sculpture and Drawings 1969-1972’. “One Hand Forming” is a log pile of bumpy, sausagelike shapes. Collection of the artist and The Museum of Modern Art. Craig F. Starr ...
Joel Shapiro Biography American artist Joel Shapiro is best known for his Minimalist sculpture, although he consistently imbues his work with a sense of the human figure. His large-scale sculptures confront the viewer with the dominant material of wood or bronze through abstract, geometric variations; however, his works seem to embody the ...
