Sculpted in Metal, Stories of History and Identity Take Shape
Works by Melvin Edwards are celebrated in a survey at City Hall Park in Manhattan.
Melvin Edwards’s sculpture, “Song of the Broken Chains,” at City Hall Park in Manhattan.Credit.Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
By Sophie Haigney
May 4, 2021
The sculpture, made of red stainless steel and chains, rocks and sways. The lengths of links some rusted, some the bright silver of galvanized steel ripple in the wind. Nearby, a very different sculpture also takes the form of a chain, this time represented on a massive scale, its links severed and scattered.
4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
On view this week: Analia Saban’s subtly unique prints; Cate Giordano’s tableaus of Henry VIII’s bride; Kim Jones’s gritty assemblage-sculptures; and Harmony Hammond’s textile art.
Dec. 30, 2020
Analia Saban
Through Jan. 16. Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, 535 West 24th Street, 3rd Floor, Manhattan. 212-249-3324; joniweyl.com.
A print, at least usually, isn’t finished when you pull the sheet off the lithograph stone or the copper plate. You have to sign the print, outside the plate mark, and then number it. So each identical print becomes unique outside the artwork’s borders an antinomy that Analia Saban, an Argentine-artist based in Los Angeles, disturbs and amplifies in “This One,” her clever, subtly difficult recursive series of three black-and-white etchings.