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George Rickey sculptures on view across NYC this fall

By Chadd ScottPosted on August 29, 20210 Comments
George Rickey, Two Red Lines, 1963-1975. Courtesy the George Rickey Estate and Foundation
George Rickey, Two Red Lines, 1963-1975. Courtesy the George Rickey Estate and Foundation

The George Rickey Foundation, Inc., and The George Rickey Estate, LLC., are pleased to announce a host of upcoming events celebrating the life and work of groundbreaking sculptor George Rickey. This September, a major public exhibition of George Rickey sculptures along the central median on Park Avenue between 52nd and 56th Streets will open concurrently with an exhibition of large-scale works at the Kasmin Sculpture Garden in Chelsea.

The exhibition — “George Rickey: Monumental Sculpture on Park Avenue” — will be staged in collaboration with The Sculpture Committee of The Fund for Park Avenue and the NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program, and will go on view from August 30 through late November 2021. The presentation will feature nine classic, monumental, kinetic (sculptures capable of motion) George Rickey sculptures, some of them not exhibited in many years.

“An artist who uses movement may behave like a clown or a philosopher or a school teacher or a research scientist,” Rickey wrote. “If great talents use movement, great art will move.”

The Park Avenue installation will showcase much of Rickey’s diverse and energetic repertoire, with the earliest made in 1964 and the latest completed in 2002. Breaking Column II (1989), one of Rickey’s most important and complex works, will tower over Park Avenue at 25 feet tall, playfully disrupting the stasis and calm demeanor of a classic architectural form, as its discrete components fall apart and reassemble on the wind’s whim. On verdant Park Avenue, the show will vividly demonstrate Rickey’s interpretation of the dialogue between the built and natural worlds.

Six Lines in a T (1964-1979) will also be on display. Comprised of six hand-crafted and reflective stainless steel blades, this masterpiece, meticulously engineered and perfectly balanced, creates the illusion of organic independent motion from the slightest current of wind. On Park Avenue, George Rickey sculptures explore cyclical movement will also be seen in works such as Space Churn with Octagon (1971), a series of concentric forms that each spin at different speeds, creating varying patterns, and Untitled Circle (2002), the exhibition’s most minimalist piece, a stainless steel ring that asserts a quiet power with its effortless movement.

KASMIN BRINGS RICKEY TO THE HIGH LINE

Kasmin Gallery next to the High Line (right), New York. Photo: Roland Halbe. Courtesy Kasmin.
Kasmin Gallery next to the High Line (right), New York. Photo: Roland Halbe. Courtesy Kasmin.

Simultaneously, three George Rickey sculptures will be exhibited at Kasmin gallery’s rooftop sculpture garden in Chelsea, viewable from the High Line at 27th Street. All three sculptures date back to the 1960s, including Rickey’s iconic Two Red Lines (1963-1975), one of the first to feature what would become the artist’s signature vertical blades. The blades of this piece, wrote Hayden Herrera for Artforum in 1975, “intersect, scissor open and slow increasingly as they near the horizontal, as if they were summoning energy for the return voyage,” adding that the movements in all of Rickey’s works, “are complex, random and endlessly intriguing.” This outdoor installation is Kasmin gallery’s first exhibition of Rickey’s work since announcing their representation of the artist’s estate in November 2020, and will remain on their roof through the run of the Park Avenue show.

ABOUT GEORGE RICKEY

George Rickey was among the most inventive and influential sculptors of the twentieth century. Rickey, along with Calder, introduced the notion of kinetic sculpture to America in the mid twentieth century. Rickey’s kinetic works are the outgrowth of his experiments with wire and metal that began during his service in World War II. By the late 1950s and early 1960s he had defined his sculptural forms as simple, geometric shapes such as rectangles, trapezoids, cubes, and lines. Rickey created work that specifically revealed the ever-present, but unseen, elements and forces of nature. Rickey expanded the physical vocabulary of sculpture, positioning his work at the intersection of art and nature. In his hands, art and nature are one and the same.

Rickey’s work can be found in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which hosted a retrospective of the artist in 1979, and in those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Tate Gallery.

ABOUT NYC PARKS’ ART IN THE PARKS PROGRAM

For more than 50 years, NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program has brought contemporary public artworks to the city’s parks, making New York City one of the world’s largest open-air galleries. The agency has consistently fostered the creation and installation of temporary public art in parks throughout the five boroughs. Since 1967, NYC Parks has collaborated with arts organizations and artists to produce more than 2,000 public artworks by 1,300 notable and emerging artists in more than 200 parks. For more information, please visit nyc.gov/parks/art.

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