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2018-12-10
Over the last 20 years Evan Holloway’s revisionist take on the modernist sculptural lexicon has become an indelible feature in the Los Angeles cultural imagination. He synthesizes compositional and conceptual rigor with a passion for handmade things, creating a body of work driven by intuition and the meanings resulting from the methods, restrictions, and possibilities of materials. His sculptures retain a democratic openness and accessibility even as they address specific art historical legacies and readily lend themselves to esoteric readings.
Outdoor Sculpture is Holloway’s first exhibition to consist solely of objects conceived for outdoor installation. Though they require intensive planning and fabrication, the open-air settings for which they are intended are necessarily less predictable than white-walled galleries. Holloway thereby reimagines the ephemerality and provisional quality of his earlier work, which often included performative elements or unorthodox materials, in a more expansive register and at a larger scale. As he confronts technical issues of size, visibility, and durability that come along with the possibility of placing objects in the landscape, his forms have evolved in a variety of ways; the exhibition showcases a diverse range of sculptural languages, each of which addresses a different set of questions regarding form and signification.
Opposite – 28 Incense Sticks, 2018
Exhibition runs January 12th through to March 2nd, 2019
David Kordansky Gallery
5130 W. Edgewood PL.
CA. 90019
Los Angeles
davidkordanskygallery.com
