George Sugarman
Silent Welcome
1987 - 88

About the Item

GEORGE SUGARMAN Silent Welcome, 1987 - 88 Acrylic on aluminum 16 x 28 x 14 inches Sugarman explained of his work: All art is metaphor…sheer physical stimulation or the insistence on a system of formal relationships that has meaning in and for itself. Metaphor, stimulation, formal relationships, three ways to meaning. Is it necessary to choose? My choice has not been to eliminate but to keep all possible sources of meaning open. Open is a word I like… Complexity is another. George Sugarman had retrospectives at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, in 1969 and at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha in 1982. A truncated version of the Omaha show was seen in Manhattan at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1986. His most recent New York exhibition was in 1998 at Hunter College in New York, where he taught from 1960 to 1970. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center and the Kunstmuseum. "The elaborate shapes, both delicate and dense, recall the Baroque art that impressed George Sugarman during his first travels in Europe. Later...Sugarman noted, 'All throughout the '60s and '70s I had no label. I wasn't Pop. I wasn't Mininmal. And 'Maximal' was a word that wasn't used. Yet I was a Maximalist. I wanted to put everything in my work, even the kitchen sink.'" - Storm King Art Center Sculpture Guide, 2015, p. 193

Creator:
George Sugarman (1912-1999, American)
Creation Year:
1987 - 88
Dimensions:
Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 28 in (71.12 cm)Depth: 14 in (35.56 cm)
Medium:
Acrylic,Aluminum
Period:
20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1061033523
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