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BUILT Sculptural Art from the Permanent Collection

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BUILT Sculptural Art from the Permanent Collection


John Barnes, Doe Poppin’ II (detail), 2015, Red oak, plywood, pencil, Gift of Brooke Davis Anderson, 2018.1.1


February 27 – July 25, 2021

BUILT features works of art by the following artists:

John Barnes
Lynda Benglis
Joey Bonhage
Douglas Bourgeois
Beverly Buchanan
Kevin Cole
Clyde Connell
Jeffrey Cook
Claudia DeMonte
William Dunlap
Lin Emery
Skylar Fein
Lonnie Holley
Joe Hotard
Nene Humphrey
Benjamin Jones
Ed McGowin (as Alva Isaiah Fost)
Mark Messersmith
William Monaghan
Andy Nasisse
Sherry Owens
Martin Payton
Gina Phillips
Richard Rosenblum
Ersy Schwartz
John T. Scott
Floyd Shaman
Keith Sonnier
James Surls
Robert Tannen

Host Committee

Anonymous
Linda Burgess & William Dunlap
Carolyn & Jerry Fortino
Karen & Cameron Rezai
Holly & Geoffrey Snodgrass
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BUILT draws from Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s permanent collection to examine the various ways artists of the American South have explored the power of the sculptural form.

Unlike two-dimensional art such as painting, drawing and photography – sculptural art engages three coordinates, existing in the same space as our bodies. For that reason, the viewer experiences sculptural works in a different way. Sculptural art emerges from the floor, wall or ceiling to inhabit the same space as the viewer in a way that pictorial art does not. Although still a visual art form, the viewer experiences this work as a more physical interaction.

The artists in this exhibition engage scale, proportion, shape, form, space, color and texture to convey their personal visions in Euclidean space. These artists create work in a broad range of mediums and with varying degrees of representation, while pushing the boundaries of their craft and carrying on traditions. Some create purely non-objective objects, and some build gestural improvisations, while others yet craft figurative representations. Some work in traditional sculpture mediums such as bronze, wood and clay. Some engage new mediums such as hydrostone, CelluClay, vacuum-formed plastic or neon. Someuse found objects such as inner tubes or scrap metal, while still others engage natural materials such as crepe myrtle branches or palm bracts. Two are painters who have added sculptural elements to expand the narrative of their paintings by engaging the third dimension. Yet whether they are using papier-mâché, iron or light, all of these artists are articulating form and building volume, essentially drawing in space.

Bradley Sumrall
Curator of the Collection


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Curated Conversation

Curated Conversation with “BUILT” artist, William Monaghan, and Bradley Sumrall, Curator of the Collection.

Gallery

Lynda Benglis, Minerva, 1986, Bronze, nickel and chrome, Gift of the Roger Houston Ogden Collection
William Monaghan, Untitled (1619), 2016, Steel/Aluminum found objects on wood, airbrush with oil and acrylic, 60 x 60 inches, Gift of William Dunlap, 2018.3.1
Andy Nasisse, Horror Vocui, 1993, Ceramic, 48 x 18 x 14 inches, Courtesy of Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Gift of the Roger Houston Ogden Collection, 2003.1.400
Sherry Owens, Mother Nature Throwing Up Her Hands , 2017, Crepe Myrtle, bailing wire, paint, dye and wax, 76 x 40 x 34 inches, Courtesy of Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Gift of the Roger Houston Ogden Collection, 2018.12.1

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Tuesday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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The last admission to the Museum is 4:45 p.m.

*Thursday admission from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. is free to Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation

Current Exhibitions

  • Knowing Who We Are: From 19th Century Academic Painting through Southern Regionalism MADE POSSIBLE BY THE TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART
  • Knowing Who We Are: The Rise of Abstraction, Vernacular Art and Photography MADE POSSIBLE BY THE TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART
  • Knowing Who We Are: The Contemporary Dialogue MADE POSSIBLE BY THE TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART

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