Atlanta
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Scott Ingram’s “Blue Collar Modernism” included collage sketches, paintings, and sculptural installations that underscore his interest in modern architecture and functional building materials. Following the exhibition title, the work made a promise to explore aspects of Modernism that are often conflated and at times contradictory—on the one hand, our economic, social, and cultural condition after the rise of industrialization and urbanization; and on the other, a set of aesthetic codes generally associated in the U.S. with Clement Greenberg, though conjured up here by Ingram’s wall-text references to Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism, De Stijl, Alvar Aalto, Irving Gill, Mies van der Rohe, and Eero Saarinen…see the entire review in the print version of January/February’s Sculpture magazine
