Artist Joel Shapiro Creates an Installation of New Works for the Museum Ludwig

COLOGNE.- American sculptor Joel Shapiro (b. 1941) created an installation of new and preexisting works for the Museum Ludwig‘s large sky-lighted gallery, interweaving the pieces into a new structure in the space. He will arrange free-hanging, colored wooden beams according to a sophisticated plan, shaping a new sense for space and the possibilities of sculpture. Exhibition view, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 26 February – 25 September 2011. Foto: Lothar Schnepf © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011. Shapiro’s works, which freely float from barely [...]

New Work by Joel Shapiro on View at The Pace Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents Joel Shapiro: New Work, the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery since joining in 1992. Joel Shapiro: New Work will be on view at 534 West 25th Street, New York City from April 17 through May 15, 2010. Joel Shapiro’s new body of work is composed of painted rough wood elements suspended in space from the walls, the floor and ceiling via string. Shapiro cuts the wood and paints it with dry [...]

Early Works by Joel Shapiro on View at Paula Cooper Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of early works by Joel Shapiro. The exhibition will be on view at 521 West 21st Street through February 13 and will include a selection of sculpture from 1969 through 1979. Joel Shapiro began working in the late 1960s at a time when traditional notions of sculpture were being radically redefined by Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Shapiro’s first one-person shows, at the Paula Cooper Gallery in 1970 and 1972 and [...]