OHT Gallery Boston

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Objects of

Patrick Strzelec

November 1- 23, 2002
Reception: Friday, November 1, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Patrick Strzelec's exhibition title, objects of, suggests his willingness to view his work as something other than modern sculpture. Though Strzelec's work is informed by modernism, it's a quirky modernism which allows for odd combinations of materials and what one critic refers to as "a deliberate dumbness of form and construction."

The pieces in this exhibition are more domestic in scale and intimacy than many of Strzelec's previous works. Untitled, a cast aluminum piece, is composed of two cartoonish forms engaged in conversation. They sit atop a tall pedestal which lends their exchange a sense of monumentality, while their grey, aluminum coloring is vaguely industrial and a little reminiscent of monopoly pieces. All these factors contribute to the demystification of these works as sculpture and ask us to consider them as objects.

Patrick Strzelec lives in rural Pennsylvania and teaches at Harvard University. He exhibits his work at Jay Grimm / John Graham Gallery in New York and has been commissioned by the United States Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., Rutgers University, and many private collections. Strzelec has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize for Sculpture. This is his first one person show at O·H+T gallery.