Richard Deacon. House & Garden

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Marian Goodman Gallery New York is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Richard Deacon. The exhibition, titled House & Garden, will open on Wednesday, January 9th and be on view through Saturday, February 16th, 2019.

House & Garden includes new photographs, ceramics and sculpture from the past year, exploring relationships between these materials and processes. The exhibition represents recent innovations in Deacon’s thinking about sculpture, considering the relationship of image to surface, object making to the pictorial, and sculpture to the plinth, all notions that have been present in his work and are at the nexus of his steadfast interest in a multiplicity of modes of production.

In the North Gallery, two new series of works are shown in a grid. Glazed ceramic table reliefs titled Flat are identified by number and each rest on individual tables. These are shown in conjunction with paired photographs, titled Home & Away, displayed on tilted sides of house-shaped structures, and each again identified by number. Representing a move from large scale sculpture to smaller scale works, Flat are directed towards the perception of a horizontal surface and allude to the table top itself as a site of interest, each undulating and brightly hued ceramic becoming a vessel itself for smaller, patterned polygonal shapes embedded inside it. The photographs shown on tables are “akin to small house models, with images on their roofs”, Deacon says. “House & Garden, as an exhibition title comes, in part at least, from this broad association, and more straightforwardly, from the fact that a proportion of the images are taken inside the house, or looking out of a window, or in the garden.”

House & Garden suggests Deacon’s relationship to landscape through sculpture and photography, which continues into the adjacent gallery where wall mounted photographs are shown with ceramic objects, and then into the South Gallery where they are shown in tandem with three larger sculptures in stainless steel and wood, Wave, Mire and Under the Weather.