In the late 60s, Richard Nonas was working as an anthropologist when he had an epiphany in the park one day while playing with his dog. Picking up pieces of wood, he was struck by their relationship to each other and began a career in making sculpture whose construction was plain to see but which resulted in what he calls an ‘unexpected inexplicable result.’ (At James Fuentes on the Lower East Side through April 21st).
Richard Nonas, Untitled (from the Cherrytree Split Series), cherry wood, 2012.
