SCULPTURE
John Grade at the Davidson Galleries
by Matthew Kangas, September 2004, Vol. 23, No. 7
Grade’s world fetishizes the natural into the manmade and vice versa; industrial surfaces are rendered uncannily natural-looking.
John Grade’s fourth solo show in Seattle since 1998 shifted away from the site-specific installation work to autonomous unitary objects. The results were varied and impressive.
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MORPHOUS
LIONEL SMIT
June 13 – April 30, 2017
Union Square, New York City
This latest work by Lionel Smit, MORPHOUS, is an exploration of hybrid identity and its ever-changing nature within South Africa’s social landscape. This particular piece evokes a question of time, of past and future, and the balance point at which his country finds itself as it embarks on the next chapter of a post-Apartheid and post-Nelson Mandela South Africa, a future South Africa. This “double-vision” is a foretelling, and an acknowledgement of what has already passed, a societal commentary without judgment.
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John Grade –
Anticipating and Letting Go
by Janet Koplos
feature article, Sculpture Magazine, December 2010
He achieves an extraordinary balance: physical immediacy against vulnerability
…More than the typical sculpture, Grade’s work has a deep backstory in its natural inspiration, its materials, and/or its placement. More than the typical installation, it has continuity, both literal and symbolic. More than the typical artwork it accepts the fluidity of time and the possibility of death and rebirth…
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