Author: Marin R. Sullivan

• An Indifferent Matter?

  31 October 2013

  exhibitions

  Andy Warhol, Art history, Asphalt Lump, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hans Haacke, Henry Moore Institute, Peter Osborne, Robert Smithson, Sculpture, Silver Clouds

  This is a joint post by Dr. Lara Eggleton of Folly Matters and Dr. Marin R. Sullivan of Sculptural Things. In the wake of the de-installation of Indifferent Matter: From Object to Sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds (25 July – 20 October 2013), two friends and art historians decided to co-write a blog based on our…

• Sculpture Matters: recent encounters with figuration, clay, and maverick makers

  15 October 2013

  thinking about the sculptural

  Arturo Martini, clay, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Lucio Fontana, Sculpture, Thomas Houseago

  Over the last few weeks I have encountered a rather odd collection of sculptural things: the postwar ceramic sculpture of Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti bursting with dynamically glazed and roughly handled surfaces, currently on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center; The Age of Innocence, a victorian bust in three different materials by the English sculptor Alfred…

• If you like art, y’all really should get yourself to Dallas…

  25 September 2013

  exhibitions

  Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Klyde Warren Park, Museum Tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher XChange, public sculpture, Return to Earth, sculpture exhibitions

  I haven’t posted any new entries over the past couple of weeks on account of a busy travel schedule that took me to from Chicago to Louisville (for a very lovely non-sculpture, though hilariously art history-related wedding), then to Dallas (for a very lovely new exhibition on ceramic sculpture), back to Chicago for night, before…

• Sculpture and Designed Things Part III: ‘Art is Useless’

  9 September 2013

  object studies

  Donald Judd, Furniture, Minimalism, Modern furniture, Richard Artschwager, scott burton, Specific Objects

  Richard Artschwager is not someone commonly taught in survey art history courses or an artist with widespread name recognition – something the recent retrospective exhibition attempted to rectify. Besides his use of non-traditional materials like Formica, part of the reason for this oversight is due to Artschwager’s ability to fit or not fit into a range…

• Sculpture and Designed Things Part II: Artschwager and Formica

  29 August 2013

  object studies, thinking about the sculptural

  design, Formica, Laminate, materials, Richard Artschwager, Sculpture

  “This housewife is a ‘FORMICA’ kitchen enthusiast – but aren’t we all? Won’t you feel life is good when you own a kitchen where all the surfaces are jewel-bright-clean-at-a-wipe ‘FORMICA’ Laminated Plastic?” – Formica Advertisement, 1953, published in Ideal Home  Jean Baudrillard wrote that modern materials like concrete or nylon are no less true, authentic, or real…