Joel Morrison collages everyday objects into unseen combinations and casts them with steel and fiberglass. The polished final products are refined, whimsical, and sometimes humorous. In his own words: “Each work has multiple conceptual references, complex layers of information and a simple but searing punch line.”
Some stand-outs are steel casts of an 8 foot tall plank of bubble wrap and a weather balloon surging through the caging of a tipped shopping cart (above). Polished metal renderings of transient poppable materials produce a viscerally attractive effect. His use of fiberglass creates a different tension. The detail that he achieves with steel is lost and thus the objects appear to be trying to escape from a large amorphous form. Jim Dine’s Two Big Black Hearts came to mind.
Joel Morrison’s sculptures are on view at Gagosian Gallery on 980 Madison Avenue until June 25th
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