1 Dec 2007
- 12 Jan 2008
L.A. Louver is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the British sculptor Richard Deacon, in association with Matthew Perry.
The exhibition will premiere a monumental sculpture entitled Dead Leg, 2007. Made of twisted strips of oak and stainless steel, Dead Leg stands 8 feet high, spans 28 by 9 feet, and will dominate the first floor gallery. The fluidity and grace that the artist brings to the work is achieved through technically challenging torsions within a marriage of two materials. The seemingly opposing natures of the materials - organic versus man-made - is defied, and their respective rigidity and strength united and re-formed into an abstract, graceful and dynamic structure. The sculpture will reorder the gallery environment by its presence as a complex three-dimensional drawing in space. The exhibition will also include a series of recent small-scale acrylic and plaster wall forms, which will be installed in the south gallery.
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TRAVELED
Richard Deacon: Dead Leg
9 September - 18 December 2011
University of New Mexico Art Museum
Albuquerque, NM
Richard Deacon: Dead Leg
26 January - 1 June 2008
Portland Art Museum
Richard Deacon: Dead Leg
Arts Club of Chicago
201 E. Ontario Street
Chicago, IL
29 April - 18 July 2009
SELECTED ARTICLES
Miles, Christopher. "Richard Deacon's Wooden Flirtation. Two heads and a dead leg at L.A. Louver." LA Weekly, 16 December 2007.
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Ollman, Leah. "Flow of wood evokes motion." Los Angeles Times, 14 December 2007.
articles.latimes.com
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Richard Deacon in association with Matthew Perry ." Art Review, March 2008.
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