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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]
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 Shapiro is an American artist best known for his wooden sculptures of abstracted human forms. View Joel Shapiro’s 806 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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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.
Since 1970, Joel Shapiro (b. 1941, New York, NY) has created work that activates and reconfigures space with his iconic vocabulary of geometric forms, shifting figural and nonreferential implications, and subtle manipulations of scale. In his recent investigations of the expressive possibility of form and color, the artist suspends elements ...
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.
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.