Photography Reinvents Sculpture

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Brooke Rosenblatt

Sarah Hamill’s recent talk at the museum on how and why David Smith’s photographs matter inspired this comparison. Consider the photographs below of the museum’s Bouquet of Concaves (1959). The photo on the left was was taken by Smith; the one on the right one wasn’t.

: (Left) Bouquet of Concaves as photographed by David Smith at Bolton Landing, 1959. Color transparency. © Estate of David Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. (Right) David Smith. Bouquet of Concaves, 1959, Steel, painted. The Phillips Collection, gift of Gifford and Joann Phillips, 2008. © Estate of David Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

If you’re interested in learning more about Hamill’s take on Smith’s photographs, check out the exhibition catalogue for David Smith Invents.

We’re not the only David Smith fans…

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Sarah Osborne Bender

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art blog, Unframed, highlights their upcoming show, David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy. This post provides wonderful insight into exhibition design and how the works inspired creative solutions. In our own Smith show, we examine the relationship between Smith’s two-dimensional works and his sculptures (which one critic said were like “drawings pulled up.”) The show at LACMA focuses on the concept of geometry in the work of this great American artist and opens Sunday.