organic
abstraction

Norman Mooney
Bloom No. 4, 2022

APRIL 25
OPEN FOR THE 2024 SEASON

CURATED BY CHERYL SOKOLOW

OF C FINE ART

ORGANIC ABSTRACTION: CONTEMPORARY OUTDOOR SCULPTURE, explores the materials, processes, and techniques of nine internationally recognized, museum-collected sculptors working within a formalist paradigm. With an emphasis on syntax and form rather than subject matter, the handling of material and the artists’ processes become the subject of the work; each piece is most immediately identified and appreciated by its most basic physical attributes.

Artwork that is seemingly void of narrative (or abstract) has historically been celebrated as the purest form of art, as noted by critics such as Clement Greenberg and others. Material, shape, form, composition and surface engender an unadulterated or "pure" aesthetic experience. Within this idiom, notions of nature connect and inspire each work by virtue of material, form, or concept.