New Installation: Interview with Joel Shapiro

25 Apr 2012
New Installation Joel Shapiro 2 February - 18 March 2012 Commission, Rice University Art Gallery

(Joel Shapiro. Untitled, 2012. Commission, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas. Photo: Nash Baker © nashbaker.com)

Temporary Art Review sits down with Joel Shapiro to discuss his “New Installation” at Rice Gallery:

…the kind of sculpture that interests me is sculpture that deals with space, with condensing space, expanding space, and that actively engages negative space. So all these things have always been aspects of sculpture, from Stonehenge through the classical period. 

Read the rest of the interview here, and explore more on Joel Shapiro, including his 2004 skyroom installation at L.A. Louver here.