After visiting the Sculpture Center in Queens this weekend, I see why Matt King picked Ross Knight in his 2003 top ten. These wonky, awkward, pretty things look more flimsy than they really are. My favourite was the ski hill-esque structure with the colourful sheen and raggedy robot-style window panel (detail below). Both works have lots of understated personality, holding their own nicely in the bleak midwinter concrete courtyard. (for a more informed review go here)
return to: sally mckay and lorna mills
"...es concrete to anchor the aluminum tubes, uses bolts instead of velcro, and adds tightly stretched guy wires, incorporating these as new elements to his vocabulary, while still keeping that carefully controlled slapped-together feel. One imagines an enthusiastic (or deranged) carnival barker standing within the black & chartreuse enclosure above, exhorting the viewer to enter the gateway and experience more of that particular exquisite blue. Unlike the egomaniacal Richard Serra, Knight doesn't r..."
"...Sally Mckay's weblog..."
"...ommoody/pageforward/25322/?/ Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 ..."
"...ommoody/pageforward/25249/?/ Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 ..."