The Facts
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will present 'Frozen Gestures', an exhibition tracing the exploration of expressive movement in sculpture from Abstract Expressionism to the present, running from November 15, 2026, to April 11, 2027. The show takes its title from a term describing Lynda Benglis' poured pigmented latex works from the late 1960s, which solidified into their final form on the floor, blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture. By the early 1990s, Frank Stella similarly sought a painterly 'frozen gesture' through processes such as pouring molten metal into sand molds and employing 3D printing to generate fluid forms evoking Abstract Expressionist brushstrokes.
The Signal
The exhibition approaches sculpture from the perspective of painting, liberating artists from traditional concerns of weight, mass, and support that preoccupied Minimalists like Robert Morris and Donald Judd. Working with three-dimensional space also offered a solution to modernist painting's dilemma of eliminating illusionistic pictorial space while retaining optical marvels. The show includes works by Urs Fischer, Lynda Benglis, and Frank Stella, among others, highlighting how sculpture activates space through physical presence in ways static painting cannot.
- Artists: Urs Fischer, Lynda Benglis, Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Donald Judd
- Museums: NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
- Locations: Fort Lauderdale
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