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Article: Joel Shapiro at Pace. (sculpture exhibition; New York, New York)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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This two-gallery exhibition, Shapiro's first since joining Pace, had the scale of a small retrospective and the spirit of a new departure. Though his forms remain reductive, Shapiro is working with a steadily growing variety of means. There was sculpture here made of cast bronze and also of wood, along with a sizable quantity of work on paper. The blocky bronze figures familiar from the '80s are still in evidence, but they are now accompanied by poised, vertical forms made from cylinders of wood and by floor-huggin, spherical bronze sculptures spiked here and there with stubby little rods.
Shapiro has become increasingly interested in public sculpture, as his ...