15
Oct/15

TICKET ALERT: AN EVENING WITH JOEL SHAPIRO

15
Oct/15
Sculptor Joel Shapiro will be at the National Academy on November 4 to discuss the evolution of his work

Sculptor Joel Shapiro will be at the National Academy on November 4 to discuss the evolution of his work

Who: Joel Shapiro
What: An Evening with Joel Shapiro
Where: Assembly Hall, National Academy Museum & School, 1083 Fifth Ave. at 5 East 89th St., 212-369-4880
When: Wednesday, November 4, free with advance RSVP, 6:00
Why: National Academician and sculptor supreme Joel Shapiro will be at the National Academy on November 4, discussing the evolution of his extensive and impressive career, “focusing on the development of form, its possible meaning, and the relationship between sculpture and drawing to the plane.” The New York native is represented in the current “On the Square Part II” group show at Pace on East Fifty-Seventh St., and his work can also be found in museums, galleries, lobbies, and public spaces around the world, including the Sony Building at 550 Madison Ave. “I was always interested in art, but I didn’t pursue it. I mean, I had this sort of idea that I was supposed to become a physician,” Shapiro told Lewis Kachur in a 1988 interview for the Archives of American Art Oral History Program. “It was tough to come to the realization that in fact what I really was good at, and what interested me, and what satisfied me, was doing art work. That came much later.” (Oral history interview with Joel Shapiro, 1988 July 15 – December 14, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.) The talk will be followed by a reception in the Sonia Gechtoff Gallery.