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Luke Fowler, amphitheatre at the Nasher

Luke Fowler
Sightings: Luke Fowler
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas [link]
Through August 19, 2018

Fowler created a dual, site-specific aural experience in the amphitheater garden of the Nasher and Lismore Castle Arts that reveals hidden histories of the institutions and the inner structure of their respective sculptural objects. Influenced by Minimalist Avant-Garde music and Fluxus, the sound work in Dallas functions as a liminal dialogue between two sculptures by Naum Gabo and Barnett Newman. By transforming the sculptural surfaces into a speaker, recording and synthesizing the sign waves, the resulting auditory action questions the notion of sculpture as a physical object, as well as how we perceive an acoustic composition within the spacial ecology of place.

~ Colette Copeland
all images courtesy of the author, save the Barnett Newman image

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entangled
Sherry Owens and Art Shirer
Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, Austin [link]
April 12-August 12, 2018

entangled is a tour de force declaration of nature’s infinitesimal polymorphisms. As if an illustration for Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “instress” and “inscape” poetic concepts, entangled activates the relationship of the Umlauf main gallery to the surrounding natural gardens.

From an expanding night cosmos drawing of overlapping trajectories of colored comets, giant cornucopia descend, containing only the votive power of empty space. The bounty of these classical vessels is in the very woven wall of each horn-basket itself: polychrome marbles sparkle gemlike within a tapestry of wire, tree-branch, and suspended river rock.

~Thomas Motley
all photos courtesy of Sherry Owens

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