Martin Puryear is best known for refined, handmade sculptures primarily made of wood. Puryear’s drawings and prints are less well known but are essential to his studio practice. “Martin Puryear: ...
Martin Puryear’s newest and most complex work, “Lookout,” draws on the ancient method of Nubian vaulting, and the artist’s own history. By Ted Loos Without dedicated funding for conservation, many of ...
Which brings me to the work of Martin Puryear. Like Serra, Puryear went to Yale’s famed M.F.A. program (1969–71), but he attended five years after Serra had graduated. In fact, Serra and Robert Morris ...
THE DAILY PIC (#1658): Yesterday, Mad. Sq. Arts announced that Martin Puryear’s Big Bling would be extending its visit to Madison Square Park in New York all the way through April 2. I was surprised ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON — Coming upon a sculpture by Martin Puryear can be like greeting a cowled monk standing sentry at the gates of a mountain ...
Artistic Generosity and the American Artist Abroad' at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center brings together preeminent artists including Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly, Julie Mehretu, Martin Puryear, and Carrie ...
Accompanying the landmark exhibition by renowned Hudson Valley based artist Martin Puryear (born 1941), who is representing the United States at the 58th Venice Biennale, this book captures a high ...
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts presents a survey of the American sculptor, whose finely crafted works are ambitious, arresting and sometimes confusing. Lance Esplund ...
Like athletes who make the Olympic team, the selection of an artist to represent the United States at the 58th Venice Biennale next spring is a big deal in the art world. Now, at a time when museums ...
In a full-career survey at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he melds form, material and an engagement with the world. By Aruna D’Souza Martin Puryear’s newest and most complex work, “Lookout,” draws ...
In this regard, Puryear has never been an essentialist in his materials, approach to art, or subject matter. By not following in anyone’s footsteps, aligning himself with a pre-established aesthetic, ...