James Sullivan
"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
Conduit Gallery Exhibitions
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
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