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New York, NY
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LOUIS MENAND ON JAMES DINERSTEIN
The large bronze and cement sculptures James
Dinerstein has been making for the last several years
are astonishing fulfillments of the possibilities of
their forms. They transpose three-dimensionality from
geometrical into affective terms: depending on how you
approach them, their aspect changes not just
structurally ― elegant and austere from head-on,
convoluted and baroque from the side ― but
expressively. They are funny and sad, noble and silly,
dignified and nonchalant. More than this, they push the
limits of biomorphic art, for they are, fascinatingly,
human and alien at the same time ― works created by a
Martian Henry Moore. What’s best about them, though, is
the sensibility they share with the most vital American
art since the 1960s, which is their wonderfully balanced
mix of high and low, academic and pop, and, despite
their architectural gravity and complexity, their basic
wit and sense of humor.
―Louis Menand
Exhibiting
September 6-29 JAMES DINERSTEIN: Sculptures
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