Nathan Mabry
dal 17/2/2006 al 24/3/2006
Segnalato da
17/2/2006
Nathan Mabry
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
The exhibition will feature several new freestanding and wall-mounted sculptural works. Aimee Chang writes: "Nathan Mabry works with traditional materials clay, wood, plaster to create idiosyncratic figurative sculptures whose playful use of appropriation and medium-based puns expresses a quirky sense of humor".
Work in progress on a new piece
In the A Very Touching Moment series
Cherry and Martin presents the highly anticipated solo debut of new
sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Nathan Mabry. The exhibition will
feature several new freestanding and wall-mounted sculptural works.
Writing for the award-winning Hammer Museum exhibition, Thing: New Sculpture
from Los Angeles, curator Aimee Chang writes that, "Nathan Mabry works with
traditional materials clay, wood, plaster to create idiosyncratic
figurative sculptures whose playful use of appropriation and medium-based
puns expresses a quirky sense of humor. "Nathan Mabry's first solo
exhibition at Cherry and Martin will include an ambitious new work from his
series A Very Touching Moment depicting figures inspired by Pre-Columbian
Moche sculpture in an embrace suggestive of not only erotic concerns, but
formal and historical ones as well.
Nathan Mabry¹s sculpture throws into relief the assumed divide between
"ethnographic" sculptural works and those of such American Minimalists as
John McCracken, Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre. Juxtaposing formal, material and
conceptual elements, Mabry encourages the viewer to explore a range of
topics including the place of the artist in society, the role of technology
and the relationship of a civilization to its past, present and the
always-changing vicissitudes of popular culture.
Nathan Mabry received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and a MFA
from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has most recently
been seen in Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles, CA; Rogue Wave ¹05 at LA Louver, Venice, CA and Cornceptual
Popstraction at cherrydelosreyes. Mabry lives and works in Los Angeles.
Opening reception is Saturday, February 18, 2006 from 6-9pm
Mary Leigh Cherry
Cherry and Martin
12611 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Cherry and Martin gallery hours: Wednesday Saturday 11am-6pm or by
appointment.