The red hair, freckles, and boyish features of Colored Sculpture evoke figures like Huckleberry Finn, Howdy Doody, and Alfred E. Neuman. Suspended from a
mechanized gantry by heavy chains, the highly polished figure is repeatedly lifted and slammed to the floor, filling the gallery with a visceral collision
of figuration and abstraction. Its eyes use facial‑recognition technology to track viewers, while fiber‑optic displays cycle through animations, video clips,
and found imagery that tap into the cultural subconscious. An incongruous soundtrack heightens the work’s tension between reality and artifice, subject
and object, meaning and sensory overload. David Zwirner Gallery, 527 West, 20th, Street, New York
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