Red Grooms: Benign Satire

It makes total sense to learn that Red Grooms was helped on his way toward his distinctive sculptural forms by an oddball comic strip. Smokey Stover, so named for the central character, featured a fireman who always wore his helmet back to front, and it got the attention of Charles Rogers Grooms, a Nashville schoolboy with a phobia about fire.

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Seward Johnson: Against Propriety

Recipient of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Seward Johnson, whose artistic and professional career as a sculptor spans more than 50 years, initially received wide critical acclaim in the 1960s for his first work, Stainless Girl.

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Rachel Rotenberg: Muscular Movements

“Sanity,” a title shared by Rachel Rotenberg’s recent exhibitions at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and at Gershman Gallery in Philadelphia, not only suggests the role that making art plays for her, but also argues for the necessity of art in a world where countless forces, from technology to climate change to war, threaten to overwhelm us.

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Natalie Moore: Metaphor in Action

Natalie Moore, a longtime resident of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Greenpoint (she has a studio in Greenpoint), originally hails from California. In the mid-1980s, she attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, which is known for its experimental interests, particularly in the arts and humanities.

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