Orly Genger, Untitled

Orly Genger
Untitled
2011
Aluminum and resin
23 x 4 x 3 inches (58.42 x 10.16 x 7.62 cm)

Provenance
Larissa Goldston Gallery
Private Collection, New York

About the Artwork

Orly Genger is best known for her large-scale, and often site-specific, installations in which she uses large amounts of recycled climbing and lobster-fishing rope. It was precisely during the process of creation of one of these works for New York’s Madison Square Park in 2011, that the artist conceived a new direction in her practice by transferring the aesthetics of these monumental sculptures to a series of cast sculptures of a domestic scale. Untitled stands out within this series of artworks as a rare example. Whilst the majority of these sculptures are cast in metal, this particular work has been enriched by contrasting the solid and shining aluminum with the paleness and softness of a white resin in which it has been dipped. Reflecting on this series of sculptures, Genger herself has referred to each of the works as a “gesture and a drawing” therefore highlighting the role of her own intuition in the process of creation.

About the Artist

Considered one of the most important sculptors working today by Lisa Freiman, senior curator and chair of the Department of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, New York-based sculptor Orly Genger (b. 1979 in New York City) received her BA from Brown University in 2001 and attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002.

Genger’s works have been featured in the most illustrious collections globally including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hammer Museum of Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, RISD Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Queens Museum, Joslyn Art Museum, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Recent solo exhibitions include Hurlyburly, Waller Creek Conservancy, Austin (2015); Terra, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City (2014); Current, The Contemporary Austin, Austin (2014); Red, Yellow and Blue at Madison Square Park in New York City (2013); Whole at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2008).