through October 30th 2011
Simon Preston is pleased to present Vertical Neck, the second solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Michelle Lopez at the gallery. The exhibition is composed of three series of large-scale, leaning and wall-based sculptures, all of which continue the artist's investigation of sculptural history, gravity and the body. The title of the show classifies a bird, military badge and, quite literally, a pose, but at its root alludes to a cultural and even human redundancy. In this instance, Lopez looks to the legacy of Minimalism. Through a sculptural inquiry, she examines the finish fetish and fascist quality of the monolith. Vertical Neck states the obvious about a well-established form in order to unravel how there's no such truth. Instead the work looks to the bend, where we realize that things are not as they seem.
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