Exploring the Language of Form

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A new exhibition at Godwin-Ternbach Museum (GTM) at Queens College (CUNY), Exploring the Language of Form, features over one hundred outstanding sculptural art works and artifacts spanning 5,000 years of global human experience. The first exhibition of its kind at GTM to focus solely on the 3-dimensional form in all media includes works in
ceramic, wood, metal, ivory and bone, glass, stone and paper, reveals many for the first time. Diverse objects of spiritual or religious significance are presented alongside purely utilitarian objects, merging disparate time periods and global locations. From intensely personal miniature objects such as amulets or netsuke to robust sculptural statements, variations in scale and materiality stretch the boundaries of what a 3-dimensional expression can be. And as viewers, we are constantly challenged and educated by examining a plethora of approaches to the creative act. Contemporary works by Pat Lasch, Roy Lichtenstein, Claudia DeMonte, Robert Wilson, Louise Nevelson, Marcus Manganni, Chaim Gross, John Norwood, and Lawrence Fane are on view with objects from antiquity through the 19th century.