Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures

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Exploring the recent innovations of prominent contemporary artist Carol Bove's workIn collaboration with the Nasher Sculpture Center, Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures presents an extensive look into the contemporary artist's work over the past five years and her ongoing exploration of scale, color, material, force, space, and the sculptural traditions of the twentieth century. Bove's recent artistic practice demonstrates similar preoccupations to the conceptual ideas of sculpture from the 1960s-concerns for spontaneity, industrial materials, and monochrome colors, for example. However, within this space of familiar sculptural traditions, Bove discovered new approaches that lead to places previously unknown. Bove's "collage sculptures" are created from scrap metal and painted steel that has been carefully worked into sinuous forms. Considering the hard rigidity of the materials, the works possess an almost impossible softness, as if steel became as pliable as clay. They range from small pedestal sculptures to large, imposing works. These works are juxtaposed with others from the Nasher's collection in order to suggest ideas about scale and how a viewer's understanding of an artwork shifts depending on its context. The catalogue features beautiful reproductions of Bove's work and an introduction and an essay by Nasher curator Catherine Craft on the development of the collage sculptures, their scale, and their relationship to other artists and traditions. Also included is an essay by Lisa Le Feuvre that explores the unique visual language or "lexicon of sculpture" Bove has constructed as an artist.