{"id":7310,"date":"2018-02-04T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2018-01-30T06:15:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T11:15:43","slug":"melvin-edwards-in-sidelined-at-galerie-lelong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/04\/melvin-edwards-in-sidelined-at-galerie-lelong\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin Edwards in &#8216;Sidelined&#8217; at Galerie Lelong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a young man, Melvin Edwards chose a career in art over football, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashersculpturecenter.org\/art\/artists\/melvin-edwards-interview\">explains<\/a> that the physicality of the sport remained in his sculpture. \u00a0He explores a more critical consideration of the game in Goal Line Stance, a steel sculpture from 2017 that stands out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galerielelong.com\/exhibitions\/sidelined\">Galerie Lelong<\/a>\u2019s current show \u2013 an exhibition prompted by NFL players\u2019 protests against social injustice (On view through Feb 17<sup>th<\/sup> in Chelsea).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7311\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7311\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7311\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/melvin_edwards-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin Edwards, Goal Line Stance, 2017, welded steel, 15.25 x 11.5 x 14.5 inches, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young man, Melvin Edwards chose a career in art over football, but explains that the physicality of the sport remained in his sculpture. \u00a0He explores a more critical consideration of the game in Goal Line Stance, a steel sculpture from 2017 that stands out in Galerie Lelong\u2019s current show \u2013 an exhibition prompted &hellip; 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