Charles LeDray
18 Nov 2010 - 13 Feb 2011
© Charles LeDray (b. 1960)
Flip Flops, 2006
Foam rubber, epoxy resin, epoxy dye, embroidery floss, steel
13 3⁄4 x 7 1⁄2 x 4 5/8 inches (34.9 × 19 × 11.75 cm).
Collection John McEnroe. Photograph by Tom Powel. Courtesy of Sperone Westwater
Flip Flops, 2006
Foam rubber, epoxy resin, epoxy dye, embroidery floss, steel
13 3⁄4 x 7 1⁄2 x 4 5/8 inches (34.9 × 19 × 11.75 cm).
Collection John McEnroe. Photograph by Tom Powel. Courtesy of Sperone Westwater
CHARLES LEDRAY
Workworkworkworkwork
November 18, 2010 – February 13, 2011
Over the past twenty years, New York-based sculptor Charles LeDray (b. 1960, Seattle) has created a highly distinctive and powerful body of work using such materials as sewn cloth, carved human bone, and glazed ceramics. This major survey, which includes works from the 1980s to the present, celebrates both the artist’s virtuosity with materials and his uncanny manipulation of scale to create seemingly familiar objects that engage the collective memory. His techniques of sewing, carving bone, and throwing clay pots find precedents in the traditions of folk art and visionary art, yet rise to a level of unprecedented virtuosity and artistic invention. The exhibition is curated by Randi Hopkins for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Its Whitney installation will be overseen by curator Carter Foster.
Workworkworkworkwork
November 18, 2010 – February 13, 2011
Over the past twenty years, New York-based sculptor Charles LeDray (b. 1960, Seattle) has created a highly distinctive and powerful body of work using such materials as sewn cloth, carved human bone, and glazed ceramics. This major survey, which includes works from the 1980s to the present, celebrates both the artist’s virtuosity with materials and his uncanny manipulation of scale to create seemingly familiar objects that engage the collective memory. His techniques of sewing, carving bone, and throwing clay pots find precedents in the traditions of folk art and visionary art, yet rise to a level of unprecedented virtuosity and artistic invention. The exhibition is curated by Randi Hopkins for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Its Whitney installation will be overseen by curator Carter Foster.