Nicola Tyson in ‘Somebodies’ at Petzel Gallery

Nicola Tyson’s freewheeling firewood sculptures embody a grace that belies their origins in the woodpile. Stripping each piece of dried firewood of its bark, Tyson assembles fleshy ‘dancing figures’ as disproportionate assemblages of thick and thin segments that bring to mind human bodies, trees and robots. (In ‘Somebodies’ at Petzel Gallery in Chelsea through Aug 4th).

Nicola Tyson, installation view of ‘Dancing Figure #1’ (foreground) and ‘Dancing Figure #2,’ both 2016, apple, elm and maple wood.