“A lot of my early work started off nominally geometric and constructed, but I would sneak in a reference to the body without depicting the body, which was a way of creating a kind of subversive connection. Desire, memory, humor, even wistfulness are powerful psychic qualities that I do not avoid. I wanted to enter the work directly and have its narrative understood as much in the body as the mind.”
– Peter Shelton

Peter Shelton’s sculpture bluewiggle is currently on view in our 2nd floor group exhibition through July 2, 2015. Visit Shelton’s blog for a behind the scenes look at how this sculpture was made. 

Interested in learning more about Shelton’s work? Here’s a recent film we produced on his 2011 L.A. Louver solo exhibition eyehand, which brought together a selection of sculptures dating from 1975-2011.