Martin Puryear: Lookout
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Author: Puryear, Martin
This catalogue documents the construction and unveiling of American artist Martin Puryear's monumental site-specific installation, Lookout, at Storm King Art Center in New York. The 20-foot-tall sculpture is built of layers of red clay bricks laid using thin-shell masonry techniques. The book is complemented by a broader retrospective of Puryear’s work, including a selection of process models and drawings from over 40 years of his public sculptures and installations.Rather than straight lines and vertical walls, however, the work curves inward and upward, opening to allow entry from one side while producing a swelling form on the opposite end. In Lookout, Puryear evokes brickmaking as a once-primary industry in the Hudson Valley and references the vernacular structures that dot the local landscape.Inside the structure, Puryear uses the work’s form and setting to encourage a heightened sense of presence. The brick surface is punctuated by a constellation of 90 circular openings created by tubes of fibreglass-reinforced concrete in varying sizes. These oculi act as apertures, creating pinhole vignettes of the surrounding trees and sky.
ISBN 9781941366646. Gregory R. Miller & Co./Storm King Art Center. hb. 176 pages. 120 colour ills. 27.3 x 22.2 cm.
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This catalogue documents the construction and unveiling of American artist Martin Puryear's monumental site-specific installation, Lookout, at Storm King Art Center in New York. The 20-foot-tall sculpture is built of layers of red clay bricks laid using thin-shell masonry techniques. The book is complemented by a broader retrospective of Puryear’s work, including a selection of process models and drawings from over 40 years of his public sculptures and installations.Rather than straight lines and vertical walls, however, the work curves inward and upward, opening to allow entry from one side while producing a swelling form on the opposite end. In Lookout, Puryear evokes brickmaking as a once-primary industry in the Hudson Valley and references the vernacular structures that dot the local landscape.Inside the structure, Puryear uses the work’s form and setting to encourage a heightened sense of presence. The brick surface is punctuated by a constellation of 90 circular openings created by tubes of fibreglass-reinforced concrete in varying sizes. These oculi act as apertures, creating pinhole vignettes of the surrounding trees and sky.
ISBN 9781941366646. Gregory R. Miller & Co./Storm King Art Center. hb. 176 pages. 120 colour ills. 27.3 x 22.2 cm.
available