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Freight + Volume proudly presents Dog Leg, an exhibition of new works by Adam Brent. Dog Leg will be on view at the gallery’s 39 Lispenard St. location January 31st through March 1st,2025. This is Brent’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Adam Brent’s recent sculptures play off the idea of a Dog Leg, or a sudden bending in the road, in ways that are equally formal and autobiographical. Biographical allusions, more or less conscripted into the facture of each piece, recast the significance of the materials he works with. 3D printed plastics commingle with earthen ceramic forms; an ever recalcitrant material such as aluminum is shaped to reassemble as an expressive symbol of quotidian, domestic realities (pancakes, milk bottles, bookends). However much Brent’s sculptures flirt with functionality, there’s always a gap between what they represent and how they occupy perceptual space: a gap wherein a cluster of occult signifiers circulate, and which hold…
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Freight + Volume proudly presents Dog Leg, an exhibition of new works by Adam Brent. Dog Leg will be on view at the gallery’s 39 Lispenard St. location January 31st through March 1st,2025. This is Brent’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Adam Brent’s recent sculptures play off the idea of a Dog Leg, or a sudden bending in the road, in ways that are equally formal and autobiographical. Biographical allusions, more or less conscripted into the facture of each piece, recast the significance of the materials he works with. 3D printed plastics commingle with earthen ceramic forms; an ever recalcitrant material such as aluminum is shaped to reassemble as an expressive symbol of quotidian, domestic realities (pancakes, milk bottles, bookends). However much Brent’s sculptures flirt with functionality, there’s always a gap between what they represent and how they occupy perceptual space: a gap wherein a cluster of occult signifiers circulate, and which hold…
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