Sculpture

Critical Dialogue Series, presented by Tyler PDS Department continues tomorrow at 6pm in the Temple Contemporary gallery.

Look for the Sculpture table at this year's Tyler Art Market 12-8pm!

Rob D'Amico's Advanced Sculpture class in the welding area

Today & onward!

Spring 2018 BFA Thesis Shows in the Stella Elkins Gallery [lower front level of Tyler]

PAUL PFEIFFER Wednesday, December 6th at 6PM TEMPLE CONTEMPORARY... Paul Pfeiffer uses video, sound, photography, and sculpture to explore how images shape our perceptions of ourselves and the world. Sampling footage from YouTube, Cable TV, movies, and mass media sports events for use as building blocks in his work, he interrogates the canonization of memory and history, as in a digitally erased Marilyn Monroe or ghostly image of Muhammad Ali fighting in the ring, asking viewers to question their own spectatorship and desire. Informed by, among others, Francis Bacon, Warhol, and the legacy of classical architecture, his large-scale pieces wrestle with notions of power, while miniature works evoke intimacy. In a recent colossal production, he recorded a hired crowd of 1,000 men to re-create the sounds of 100,000 fans cheering during a World Cup match. In all of his work, from a lush, sunrise and sunset shot, and shown, in real time, to a twenty-four hour a day, seventy-five day long piece, where New York commuters could watch a video of a nest full of eggs hatching and then growing into chickens, Pfeiffer is saying: pay attention. One critic summed up his body of work, One can feel the deepening of love and the holes left open by need.

ROB PRUITT Wednesday, October 11th at 6PM AUDITORIUM B004... Rob Pruitt was born in 1964 in Washington, D.C. He studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. and Parsons School of Design in New York. His work has been featured in numerous solo-exhibitions including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2015), The Brant Foundation (2015), the Aspen Art Museum (2013), Dallas Contemporary (2011), Freiburg Kunstverein (2012); Le Consortium, Dijon (2002); and group exhibitions at the Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2017), as well as the Tate Modern and Punta Della Dogana/Palazzo Grassi, Venice (both 2009), and performance-based projects at the Tate Modern (2009), Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2013). Pruitt is represented by Gavin Brown’s enterprise and {MDC} Massimo De Carlo. The artist lives and works in New York City. www.robpruitt.com