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May 25, 2022 · See new Tweets. Conversation
Share on Twitter Share on Email S tepping into the big second-floor gallery space of the Whitney Museum, one can see twelve years of Joel Shapiro’s work, spanning the decade of the Seventies and edging into the Eighties. [1]
Joel Elias Shapiro (born September 27, 1941 [1] 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’s sculptures make the boundaries of the exhibition space into their own “frame” so that the viewer is encouraged to approach the pieces by means of diminishing circumvolutions.
- Marc Fields
Jul 11, 2016 · The influential American sculptor Joel Shapiro, now in the fifth decade of his career, brings out his wood wall reliefs from the late 1970s for their first survey exhibition, at Dominique Lévy in New York, along with a new installation
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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 ...
