American, born 1941
Presenting over 100 drawings and prints as well as 12 sculptures, this exhibition offers an unprecedented look into Puryear's inspirations, methods, and transformative process.
This is the last step in completing the installation. Martin Puryear's work will be exhibited from February 24-May 18, 2008.
Bower MOMA The Charm of Subsistence St Louis Art Museum Old Mole MOMA Untitled MOMA Seer Guggenheim Brunhil...
Sculptor, Martin Puryear employs wood, mesh, stone and metal to create forms that resist identification. His objects and public installations are a marriage of minimalist logic with traditional ways of making. Puryear represented the United States at the Bienal de São Paulo in 1989, where his exhibition won the Grand Prize. Puryear is the recipient […]
One of my favorite Artist Martin Puryear (born May 23, 1941) American sculptor . He works in media including wood, stone, tar, and wire. Hi...
Exhibition. Nov 4, 2007–Jan 14, 2008. The Museum of Modern Art presents a major exhibition of the sculpture of the acclaimed American artist Martin Puryear (b. 1941). The retrospective will feature approximately forty-five sculptures, following the development of Puryear’s artistic career over the last thirty years, from his first solo museum show in 1977 to the present day. Puryear began his career in the 1970s alongside other members of the Post-Minimalist generation. Working primarily in wood, he has maintained an unwavering commitment to manual skill and traditional building methods. His sculptures are rich with psychological and intellectual references, examining issues of identity, culture, and history. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication illustrating all works in the exhibition, with additional reference illustrations of the artist’s works and other comparative material.
Stand amidst the sculptures of Martin Puryear and you are aware that he is one of the few living artists whose work consistently commun...
Sculptor, Martin Puryear employs wood, mesh, stone and metal to create forms that resist identification. His objects and public installations are a marriage of minimalist logic with traditional ways of making. Puryear represented the United States at the Bienal de São Paulo in 1989, where his exhibition won the Grand Prize. Puryear is the recipient […]
Martin Puryear
Internationally celebrated as one of the leading sculptors working today, Martin Puryear (b 1941) is known for his painstakingly constructed, wood abstractions of rich, symbolic beauty. Using time-consuming, hand-crafting methods, he frequently blends wire mesh and tar with wood, often evoking associations with animal, vegetable and human forms, as well as such artifacts as nets, tools and vessels. A gifted member of the post-Minimalist generation, his powerful and evocative pieces are notable for their inventive forms, consummate craftsmanship and unusual beauty. The imagination, skill and charm of the oeuvre of this African American sculptor are splendidly showcased in ⁍artin Puryear,†featuring 46 works, including one monumental piece created especially for the exhibition tour. Already seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, it is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., through September 28.
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Stand amidst the sculptures of Martin Puryear and you are aware that he is one of the few living artists whose work consistently commun...
Martin Puryear, 1988/89
IN 1997, THE ST. JAMES GUIDE TO BLACK ARTISTS called sculptor Martin Puryear a quiet revolutionary engrossed in the business of eroding art-world oppositions. “I would describe my usual working process as a kind of distillation—trying to make coherence out of things that can seem contradictory,” he says. “But coherence is not the same as resolution.…
With its bulbous joined spheres made of pine and cedar, Alien Huddle reveals the close relationship between organic form and material that is emblematic of Martin Puryear's sculpture. A great breadth of aesthetic traditions informs his work, including modernist abstraction, Indigenous African crafts, boat building, and recent technology. Puryear brings these together to create a distinctive body of abstract work animated by cultural, social, and historical references.
American, born 1941
Martin Puryear, the artist chosen to represent the U.S. at the latest edition of the storied Biennale, gives beautiful form to the political in works that deal with slavery.
Stand amidst the sculptures of Martin Puryear and you are aware that he is one of the few living artists whose work consistently commun...
