Redwood
October 19, 2006- November 14, 2006
Reception: October 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
526 W 26th St
Michael Steinberg Fine Art is pleased to present
David Henderson’s “Redwood”. This exhibition of large-scale fiberglass sculptures is Henderson’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The works exhibited here reference nature and sexuality, but are also rooted in science and technology. The recurring hourglass-like shape used by Henderson is derived from the center of a torus, a doughnut-like geometric form.
Henderson has been instinctively drawn to this curvaceous shape, which can be interpreted as an intimate, in-between space, charged with male/female interchange.
Henderson uses the lines described by the existing pieces to create a negative space that generates a vibrant absence. Henderson asks us to experience what’s not there as much as what is present. It is this dialogue between absence and presence that makes Henderson’s pieces dynamic, active and contemplative. In nuclear physics, the torus plays a role in particle accelerators. For example, in the
Superconducting Supercollider particles slam into one another at the speed of light producing subatomic particles, the building blocks of all matter. Henderson’s funnel-shaped sculptures look like the quiet inner core of these violent, uninhabitable spaces.
David Henderson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BA from Bard College and MFA from Columbia University. His work has been in numerous group exhibition including Samson Projects, Boston, MA, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY, Kristen
Frederickson Contemporary Art, New York, NY, Karl Drerup Gallery, Plymouth St College, NH, Exit Art, New York, NY. His work is in several private and public collections including Best Buy Corp., Minneapolis, MN, Scavone Architects, New York, NY, Morse Diesel Inc., New York, NY.
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