an exhibition by the accalaimed sculptor, a homecoming for the native son
the most startling work in the National Gallery’s Martin Puryear wxhibition is a 36-foot ladder of ash and maple that wobbles skyward in the grand West building rotunda. It hovers over the greaming marble floor, its lower rungs at two-foot intervals, its final rungs only two inches apart. Amarvel of manipulated perspective, this rough, vernacular object lifts toward the coffered dome of a museum whose galleries, only steps away, hold masterpieces of art that expain the discovery of such an illusion.
1986-lives in Romeas visiting artist at the american Academy(and again 1992-93,1997-98 as artist -in-residence)
bower of the Sitta spruce and pine at the Smithsonian american Art museum;
“amennities” in a plazza at 7700 Old Georgetown road,Bethesda,Maryland.
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