New Art on the Walls – and the Floor & Ceiling, Too
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Sculpture, which for a while seemed like the ugly stepsister of the arts, is looking more like Cinderella this season. And the belles of the ball are women. Ursula von Rydingsvard, who often works monumentally, piling up archetypal shapes of sawn planks of wood, is the subject of both a show of new work at Galerie Lelong in Chelsea (until October 21) and a display of monumental pieces in Madison Square Park, including a piece in polyurethane resin that looks like some magical, rare crystal grotto (until December 31). Mia Westerlund Roosen, an artist who works plaster in organic, hefty, energetically awkward forms, introduces a new vocabulary of folds and drapery in her first show with Betty Cuningham (until October 14).
Two women working more in the assemblage than the modeling or carving traditions of sculpture are the subject of very strong shows right now: the influential Yale professor Jessica Stockholder, with her witty pieces made from found objects, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (until October 4), and Judy Pfaff, a pioneer of installation, who has been let loose at Ameringer Yohe with a whole funfair of accumulations and interventions.
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