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Joel Shapiro emerged as an artist when abstraction prevailed. However, he felt the need to introduce a strong suggestion of a recognizable image in order to communicate. While his sculptures at first may look abstract, one soon sees the human body in a variety of activities such as running and dancing, or in the Art Center's sculpture, falling.
Source" DMAC Gallery Guide, From Body to Being, February 1 - May 4, 1997
This playful floor piece represents the ongoing investigation of the human figure which occupied Shapiro beginning the the mid-1970s. Untitled represents this continued investigation into the figure in mortion. Source: News, January February March 1988.
Exhibition History"From Body to Being: Reflections On the Human Image," Des Moines Art Center, Feb. 1 - May 4, 1997
"The Abstract Tradition in American Art," Des Moines Art Center, Dec. 7, 1991 - Feb. 23, 1992
Published ReferencesDMAC News, Nov./Dec. 1990, p.2
AN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. & b/w ill. p.255, color ill. p.254
This playful floor piece represents the ongoing investigation of the human figure which occupied Shapiro beginning the the mid-1970s. Untitled represents this continued investigation into the figure in mortion. Source: News, January February March 1988.
Exhibition History"From Body to Being: Reflections On the Human Image," Des Moines Art Center, Feb. 1 - May 4, 1997
"The Abstract Tradition in American Art," Des Moines Art Center, Dec. 7, 1991 - Feb. 23, 1992
Published ReferencesDMAC News, Nov./Dec. 1990, p.2
AN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. & b/w ill. p.255, color ill. p.254
DimensionsOverall: 26 × 49 × 38 in. (66 × 124.5 × 96.5 cm)
Accession Number 1987.8
Classificationssculpture
Copyright©Joel Shapiro/Artists Right Society (ARS), New York
ProvenanceArtist; (Paula Cooper Gallery, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 1987]
