Feature Inc
131 Allen Street, 212-675-7772
East Village / Lower East Side
January 13 - February 17, 2007
Reception: Saturday, January 13, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
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Bruce Brosnan humors sculpture. His formal structures sport the decorative with hints of personality. One moment architecture and the next a creature. Light sources and their shadows complicate matters and ignite the resonance. The use of the shadows is an interesting way to get the work to refer to itself, keeping us too in the object. I’ve always enjoyed the upbeat pace and the way that deflects the weighty traditions in formalism. As well, focusing the work on the wall rather than on the floor is a pleasant nod to painting, which his use of color clearly indicates. Yet he doesn’t get into the fussy aspects of paint application, keeping it all flat and graphic, close enough but far enough away, no strings attached.