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Email PageCurrie: New Scupture: 2006
January 5, 2006- February 4, 2006
Steve Currie
Elizabeth Harris
529 W 20th StThe Elizabeth Harris Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculpture by Steve Currie. This will be his first one-person show since 1998.
This body of work utilizes a methodical means of developing a form while allowing for some internal improvisation—openly exposing all decisions and enabling the form to grow in increments. It is simultaneously systematic and organic—a cross between a grid and a skeletal matrix. These skeletal, linear forms reflect the time involved in their making and are both space and material oriented.
There is a sense of gravity-defying lightness to Currie’s sculpture. The organic shapes of dyed foam seem to be flying outward on a molecular level, or perhaps even on a cosmic one as in the big-bang theory. This kineticism is restrained by Currie’s skeletal use of wood or wire to contain/support the colored foam, as if fluids were frozen in time and space.
Lilly Wei writes of Steve Currie’s work in an essay titled - Systems of Energy, Dreams of Sculpture: “He wants his sculptures to be flat and round, solid and fluid, incomplete and whole; he wants his ‘contradictions to come out right.’ Above all, he wants his work to be light, light physically, light metaphorically, to confound the tradition of sculpture as mass, as weight. For his sculpture to be sculpture, Currie says, it must have a place to rest and it must be light.”
Of the group of works titled Some Roads, Currie states: “There are some roads you are glad you went down and some you were not. It also refers to the internal directions of the tubes and lines and intersections – analogous to roads taken in life.”
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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