Object for ReflectioN, 2017

Installation at Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY for "Alyson Shotz: Night", 2017

Punched aluminum and stainless steel rings
122.5 x 145 x 57 inches

Collection GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO, SPAIN

All photos: Adam Reich

“Object for Reflection” is large-scale sculpture that responds specifically to the changing light of the sun. Comprised of thousands of tiny aluminum pieces hand folded around stainless steel rings, Object for Reflection appears at times solid and opaque or translucent depending upon the time of day. Available light acts upon the aluminum circles like pixels on a screen, in constant but subtle motion, underscoring the mutability of the light itself. The colors of night additionally become apparent: darkness is not simply black, but rather a spectrum of black: inky darkness, silvery moonlight, deep blue.
 
This sculpture also re-imagines our conceptions of what large-scale metal sculpture should look like: instead of being a solid heavy welded object, it is comprised of many parts entwined together- flexible, sagging, responsive to gravity, space and light.