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February 9, 2006- March 4, 2006
Macrae Semans
Taxter & Spengemann
504 W 22nd StFor his first solo exhibition Los Angeles based artist MACRAE SEMANS takes a smart, playful approach to formal sculpture, that results in curiously animated abstract objects made from found and constructed elements.
A steel rod, perhaps once part of a display rack, rises from its stubby feet in a graceful contrapposto like a long neck in an elegant portrait. Flat against the wall at the floor, filing cabinet steel is folded into a flattened mountain range of crags and crevasses and mysteriously powdered with metallic spray paint. Some repurposed galvanized steel makes an unholy alliance with slabs of Plexiglas, creating something between a coffee table and a Donald Judd--comedic and mildly reverent. Wall-mounted wooden pieces come off like metastasizing picture frames that overtook their images both in space and complexity in a confident display of materiality. A slender antenna of steel balanced against the wall supports a Kentucky-shaped chunk of concrete, its cracks filled with, and highlighted by, a translucent glossy glaze.
Deceptively simple, these seemingly off-handed gestures imbue mundane materials and strategies of display with a humanizing theatricality that complicates the formalism of the Modernist tradition without dismissing its lessons.
A 2005 graduate of UCLA's MFA program, Semans has been included in group exhibitions at Taxter & Spengemann and at Champion Fine Arts and The Hayworth Gallery in Los Angeles.
Art Reviews of Macrae Semans 2006
| New York Times February 24, 2006 | Roberta Smith | "The sculptures with which Macrae Semans, a young artist from Los Angeles, is making his promising New York debut are carefully worked-out vortexes of abject and elegant, found and made, laced with asides to the history of art and design...." |
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