Albany, New York
Opalka Gallery
When members of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Co. spun and piqued their way through John Van Alstine’s recent solo exhibition “Arrested Motion and Perilous Balance,” they underscored a resonant, though not always apparent theme in the sculptor’s work—the figurative. Made primarily of stone and metal, Van Alstine’s sculpture mixes the manmade and the natural into angular abstract structures brimming with ideas, including the tension between gravity and inertia and the found versus the fabricated object. The body doesn’t usually come to mind. …see the entire review in the print version of September’s Sculpture magazine.
When members of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Co. spun and piqued their way through John Van Alstine’s recent solo exhibition “Arrested Motion and Perilous Balance,” they underscored a resonant, though not always apparent theme in the sculptor’s work—the figurative. Made primarily of stone and metal, Van Alstine’s sculpture mixes the manmade and the natural into angular abstract structures brimming with ideas, including the tension between gravity and inertia and the found versus the fabricated object. The body doesn’t usually come to mind… see the entire review in the print version of September’s Sculpture magazine.
