left: Two Figures, 2007,
plaster, straw, steel, wood & pigment, with base 68x20x17"
center: Dancing Figure, 2007, plaster, steel, straw & pigment,
21x12x12"
right: Rock 2007, spitbite aquatint, galvanized steel plate,
24x18"
"The accumulation of straw cemented with plaster in Sullivan's sculpture constitutes a strongly worked, rich textural surface. The appeal of its palpable physicality is at once proximally tactile and distally visual. The seeming density of the mass is composed of a flickering of linear elements constellated into volume. There is a profound sense that any volumetric form, however abstract, references the figure insofar as volume entails a distinction of exteriority and interiority. Sullivan's works evoke more than the figure as abstract notion or conventional motif - they elicit the concrete lived experience of the body."
David Newman, 2000
Selected Exhibitions:
Michael Martin Galleries, San Fancisco, CA
The Meadows Museum, Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung
Worlen, Passau, Germany
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Amerika Haus, Berlin
Galerie Muhlenbusch, Dusseldorf
Raw Space/ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Stadt Museum, Erlangen, Germany
Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX