Off the Wall: One Hundred Years of Sculpture

Off the Wall: One Hundred Years of Sculpture features more than thirty works of sculpture. The exhibition highlights the “unconventional” in twentieth and twenty-first century sculpture—a period in European and American art in which traditional ideas about sculpture and painting were being challenged.  Moving off the wall and into the three-dimensional gallery space, the artists in this exhibition reimagine the divisions between two and three-dimensional media in the visual arts. The artistic processes and variety of materials on view comment on the boundaries, which typically divide painting from sculpture.

The exhibition showcases works that in various ways embrace the strange. These works feature a wide variety of materials, from marble and bronze, to more unconventional materials such as recycled paper, found objects, and even bones. Off the Wall features a number of significant twentieth and twentieth century artists, and many of the Museum’s absolute highlights: among these are works by Alexander Calder, Alfonso Ossorio, David Smith, Frank Stella, Lisa Hoke, and many others.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.