RON NAGLE – LINCOLNSHIRE SQUIRE
2020-09-28Ron Nagle’s sculptures might measure only the size of a clenched fist, but their intricate, dynamic panoramas evoke planetary domains. Stuccoed façades meet twiggy appendages, while slick, oily layers ooze over the sharp edges of perfect, geometric blocks. Meticulously crafted out of arrangements of texturally and formally contrasting elements, Nagle’s abstractions are both other-worldly and entirely of this one: they evoke a range of influences reaching between mid-century hot-rod cars of the US West Coast, and the composite sensibility of Japanese shibui and wabi-sabi. His new works for Modern Art oscillate between conveying a sense of interior and exterior. They may at once appear loosely like still-life landscapes – conveying a sense of the familiar outdoors, and at the same time describe something as specific as the details of the internal architecture of an unknown place, as though plucked from a dream.
Opposite – Based in SF, 2017
Exhibition runs through to December 18th, 2020
Modern Art
4-8 Helmet Row
EC1V 3QJ
London
