Sanford Mirling - Novel emergence (black walnut, acrylic, steel, fly fishing lines, 19" x 14" x 10", 2020)
Blending vocabularies of modernist abstraction and contemporary popular culture, Sanford Mirling’s sculptures exploit the suggestive nature of abstracted form seemingly for its own sake. These enigmatic works, with their evocative material usage and implied corporal forms, feel manipulative -they are simultaneously familiar yet equally bizarre. The warped reality from which these sculptures seem to originate is reminiscent of a hypnagogic state, that space between sleep and wake where false distinctions of memory and fantasy fade away; as past, present, and future converge for the briefest of moments.
Blending vocabularies of modernist abstraction and contemporary popular culture, Sanford Mirling’s sculptures exploit the suggestive nature of abstracted form seemingly for its own sake. These enigmatic works, with their evocative material usage and implied corporal forms, feel manipulative -they are simultaneously familiar yet equally bizarre. The warped reality from which these sculptures seem to originate is reminiscent of a hypnagogic state, that space between sleep and wake where false distinctions of memory and fantasy fade away; as past, present, and future converge for the briefest of moments.
Blending vocabularies of modernist abstraction and contemporary popular culture, Sanford Mirling’s sculptures exploit the suggestive nature of abstracted form seemingly for its own sake. These enigmatic works, with their evocative material usage and implied corporal forms, feel manipulative -they are simultaneously familiar yet equally bizarre. The warped reality from which these sculptures seem to originate is reminiscent of a hypnagogic state, that space between sleep and wake where false distinctions of memory and fantasy fade away; as past, present, and future converge for the briefest of moments.