Arlene Shechet

In She Said She Said, Shechet brings her inventive spirit and relentless process of discovery to aluminum, Cor-Ten steel, and clay—materials that feel familiar but become wholly renewed through her touch. With what she refers to as “drawing through sculpture,” the artist expands her inquiries into ideas of lightness, precarity, color, and construction in a new body of work that breathes space into traditionally “solid” mediums.

Three monumental sculptures exhibit a dynamic assembly of forms in which planes of metal are rendered in organic and biomorphic curves across shifting volumes, creating apertures of open space and allowing the marks of their making to shine through. Similarly, the openness in the Touching Ground series in clay invites a dance between viewer, object, and space through movement—looking around, peering through, and gazing upward are actions masterfully activated by Shechet’s installation methods, which underscore the dynamic between sculpture and the body.