Standing Stones

Modern artists have often looked to ancient cultures for inspiration. The Cycladic culture—Bronze age peoples spread among islands in the Aegean Sea—and the highly stylized marble sculptures which they produced was one of the more influential references for artists of the 20th century. While they continued the study of abstracting everyday forms including humans or birds to the utmost degree artists similarly continued the study of rendering these forms in hard, solid materials such as stone and cast metal.

Building upon this legacy, we present a series of sculptures that simultaneously furthers the Studio’s ongoing study into softness—both in form and as a material quality. Cast as translucent inflatables, what was heavy, solid, hard is now light, airy, and soft. These shifts offer a reinterpretation of ancient forms and allow for viewers to develop new relationships to the work.

An ever-changing assemblage of forms is presented as one moves past, under, and between the sculptures. Their translucency allows for a unique experience of the objects - forms collaged over the landscape in which they are set—and creates a special frame for the experience of the place. In this way the work is activated by the viewers’ presence at and movement through the installation.