{"id":12980,"date":"2026-03-13T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12980"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:56:15","slug":"ursula-von-rydingsvard-recent-sculpture-at-galerie-lelong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/ursula-von-rydingsvard-recent-sculpture-at-galerie-lelong\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula von Rydingsvard, recent sculpture at Galerie Lelong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ursulavonrydingsvard.net\">Ursula von Rydingsvard<\/a>\u2019s monumental cedar sculptures have taken a turn toward more complex forms in her recent work at Chelsea\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/galerielelong.com\/exhibitions\/263-ursula-von-rydingsvard\/\">Galerie Lelong<\/a>.\u00a0 Already labor intensive, von Rydingsvard\u2019s process appears to have become even more challenging as she has moved from towering forms with complex surfaces that evoke weathered rock to equally large pieces that feature long, smoother finger-like forms.\u00a0 Inspired by her own hands, the new work foregrounds the act of creation by picturing waving patterns of digits that also recall the shape of coral or underwater plants. (On view in Chelsea through March 28<sup>th<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3775px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/8aa09ef8-e4ff-a3fe-79fc-afbea7e03457.jpg\" alt=\"An abstract sculpture made of light brown cedar wood with waving folds and finger-like forms on the surface.\" width=\"3775\" height=\"4251\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ursula von Rydingsvard, Untitled, cedar, 123 x 109 x 90 inches, 2024-25.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 2701px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/1617576c-f8f0-31f5-5ca6-7631300035f7.jpg\" alt=\"An abstract sculpture made of light brown cedar wood with waving folds and finger-like forms on the surface.\" width=\"2701\" height=\"3229\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ursula von Rydingsvard, Untitled, cedar, 123 x 109 x 90 inches, 2024-25.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula von Rydingsvard\u2019s monumental cedar sculptures have taken a turn toward more complex forms in her recent work at Chelsea\u2019s Galerie Lelong.\u00a0 Already labor intensive, von Rydingsvard\u2019s process appears to have become even more challenging as she has moved from towering forms with complex surfaces that evoke weathered rock to equally large pieces that feature &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/ursula-von-rydingsvard-recent-sculpture-at-galerie-lelong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ursula von Rydingsvard, recent sculpture at Galerie Lelong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[1420,3233,11679,5052,601,10,3778],"class_list":["post-12980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-abstract","tag-cedar","tag-digits","tag-fingers","tag-galerie-lelong","tag-sculpture","tag-ursula-von-rydingsvard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3nm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12982,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions\/12982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}