Washington, DC
Corcoran Gallery of Art
There is something unsettling about the degree of pain, if not outright sadism, in this small collection
of 13 recently purchased drawings, sculptures, and photo documentations by Dennis Oppenheim, the American conceptualist. According to the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Terrie Sultan, the collection extends the gallery’s conceptual art holdings, while presenting a fuller view of an artist who, like his contemporaries Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman, pioneered American body art as a genre… Subscribe to Sculpture Magazine to read this review in full.
