Robert Grosvenor

Over his 50-year career, Robert Grosvenor has produced a body of work that is at once solidly physical and conceptual, muscular and fluid. The artist frequently melds industrial materials and found objects as he experiments with texture and scale, resulting in sculptures that reveal a handmade quality and subtle vein of humor. The works resist interpretation, instead quietly and strangely asserting themselves both as assemblages of relationships and as discrete, holistic entities.

The centerpiece of Grosvenor’s forthcoming Renaissance Society exhibition is an untitled sculpture from 1989-90 situated within a spare architectural installation.

This exhibition also provides an opportunity to generate new scholarship around Grosvenor’s oeuvre, further strengthening recognition of his significant contributions to sculpture in the 20th, and now 21st, centuries. Following the exhibition, the Ren will publish a new monograph featuring contributions by Yve-Alain Bois, Bruce Hainley, Susan Howe, John Yau, and others.

Opening reception: Saturday, February 11, 5-8pm
With talk by John Yau at 6pm