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Martin Silverman BIOGRAPHY
Born 1950. Known for: Abstract figurative sculpture.
Art in America, March 1982, Vol. 70, N° 3, pp. 144–145, ?by Wade Saunders —. For four years, Martin Silverman has shown figurative sculptures that comment on both contemporary city life and current... Read full biography
Art in America, March 1982, Vol. 70, N° 3, pp. 144–145, ?by Wade Saunders —. For four years, Martin Silverman has shown figurative sculptures that comment on both contemporary city life and current art. To keep his cast bronze figures from being too quickly read or too easily placed he has become... Read full biography
Art in America, March 1982, Vol. 70, N° 3, pp. 144–145, ?by Wade Saunders —. For four years, Martin Silverman has shown figurative sculptures that comment on both contemporary city life and current art. To keep his cast bronze figures from being too quickly read or too easily placed he has become increasingly adventuresome and confident in exploiting the divergence between his modish subject matter and dated sculptural style. His early sculptures were single figures, somewhat columnar, set in... Read full biography
Art in America, March 1982, Vol. 70, N° 3, pp. 144–145, ?by Wade Saunders —. For four years, Martin Silverman has shown figurative sculptures that comment on both contemporary city life and current art. To keep his cast bronze figures from being too quickly read or too easily placed he has become increasingly adventuresome and confident in exploiting the divergence between his modish subject matter and dated sculptural style. His early sculptures were single figures, somewhat columnar, set in suggestive contexts. In the recent pieces, context is implied by pose and clothing rather than by props, and the color has been keyed up from the traditional, somewhat effacing browns and greens of bronze to a livelier, more urban range of blues and... Read full biography
Art in America, March 1982, Vol. 70, N° 3, pp. 144–145, ?by Wade Saunders —. For four years, Martin Silverman has shown figurative sculptures that comment on both contemporary city life and current art. To keep his cast bronze figures from being too quickly read or too easily placed he has become increasingly adventuresome and confident in exploiting the divergence between his modish subject matter and dated sculptural style. His early sculptures were single figures, somewhat columnar, set in suggestive contexts. In the recent pieces, context is implied by pose and clothing rather than by props, and the color has been keyed up from the traditional, somewhat effacing browns and greens of bronze to a livelier, more urban range of blues and turquoises. Figures now interlock like early Lipchitzes, or unfold across space like reliefs freed of supporting walls. The... Read full biography
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Art in America, March 1982, Vol. 70, N° 3, pp. 144–145, ?by Wade Saunders —
For four years, Martin Silverman has shown figurative sculptures that comment on both contemporary city life and current art. To keep his cast bronze figures from being too quickly read or too easily placed he has become increasingly adventuresome and confident in exploiting the divergence between his modish subject matter and dated sculptural style.
His early sculptures were single figures, somewhat columnar, set in suggestive contexts. In the recent pieces, context is implied by pose and clothing rather than by props, and the color has been keyed up from the traditional, somewhat effacing browns and greens of bronze to a livelier, more urban r...But wait, there's more...
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