{"id":217861,"date":"2023-11-06T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=217861"},"modified":"2023-11-01T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:35:19","slug":"martin-puryear-lookout-sculpture-storm-king","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/martin-puryear-lookout-sculpture-storm-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Martin Puryear Sculpture Debuts at Storm King Art Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 500-acre grounds display more than 100 outdoor sculptures, including Menashe Kadishman\u2019s 1977 Suspended in weathering steel, but Puryear\u2019s is one of only 13 commissioned by Storm King.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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November 6, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Jeffrey Jenkins\/Courtesy of Martin Puryear and Matthew Marks Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Unique Martin Puryear Sculpture Debuts at Storm King Art Center<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Martin Puryear is perhaps best known for sculpting in wood. (His Bling Bling,<\/em> which stood sentry at Madison Square Park in Manhattan in 2017, was 40 feet of laminated plywood.) But that may be about to change: Lookout, <\/em>his site-specific commission debuting this fall at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York, is his first work made of bricks. And there are a lot of them: At 20 feet tall and 16 in diameter, it\u2019s built from some 18,000 red-shale bricks without any formwork. It\u2019s a feat of materiality and construction that took Puryear, Storm King artistic director and chief curator Nora Lawrence, plus a team of architects, structural engineers, kiln builders, and brick and cement technologists nearly a decade to complete, using a Nubian vaulting technique that was developed centuries ago in the Upper Nile delta of Africa, where Puryear\u2019s ancestors may be from. A 9-foot-high archway allows visitors full immersion with Lookout;<\/em> once inside, they stand on a floor of reclaimed cobblestones and bluestone, chosen by Puryear for both their commonalities and differences with the brick. Light filters in from and views of the grounds are visible through any of the sculpture\u2019s 90 round, different-size openings, which were formed by the insertion of glass fiber\u2013reinforced concrete tubes, the bricks cut to fit around each tube. \u201cThe experience has been an adventure and a challenge,\u201d Puryear says, \u201ca series of puzzles to be solved and a collective effort.\u201d Details of this experience as well as that of the making of the artist\u2019s other pieces<\/a> are on view through December 17 in \u201cMartin Puryear: Process and Scale,\u201d Storm King\u2019s accompanying indoor exhibition, where most of the 22 maquettes are made from Puryear\u2019s old friend, wood.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lookout, a new permanent sculpture by Martin Puryear at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York, is 20 feet tall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s the artist\u2019s first work in brick, of which there are approximately 18,000, composed primarily of red shale, and sourced from Taylor Clay Products in North Carolina.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Visitors can enter Lookout through a 9-foot-high archway to see out its 90 openings while standing on reclaimed cobblestones and bluestone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The 500-acre grounds display more than 100 outdoor sculptures, including Menashe Kadishman\u2019s 1977 Suspended in weathering steel, but Puryear\u2019s is one of only 13 commissioned by Storm King.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Storm King\u2019s accompanying indoor exhibition \u201cMartin Puryear: Process and Scale,\u201d on view through December 17, features 22 maquettes of Lookout and some of the artist\u2019s previous works, including a wooden model of his Bling Bling from 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Storm King\u2019s accompanying indoor exhibition \u201cMartin Puryear: Process and Scale.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n