Joel Shapiro
Biography
Joel Shapiro (b. 1941, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. He has executed more than thirty commissions and publicly sited sculptures in major Asian, European and North American cities and has been the subject of more than 160 solo exhibitions and retrospectives internationally. In his recent investigations of the expressive possibility of form and color in space, the artist suspends painted wooden elements from the ceiling, wall, and floor, exploring the projection of thought into space without the constraint of architecture.
Works by Joel Shapiro are found in major private and public collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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