Glassed Slab
2009
A monumental assemblage of industrial and protective materials, Glassed Slab brings together steel security glass, Plexiglas, fiberglass, wire mesh, plastic sheet, bubblewrap, silicone, and wire into a dense, layered structure that challenges conventional notions of architecture and sculpture. Tuazon's rough, hands-on approach is evident in the work's raw materiality, where barriers and building components typically associated with safety and containment are repurposed into a precarious yet commanding form. The piece reflects the artist's ongoing investigation into construction, shelter, and the physical labor embedded in making.
- Medium
- steel security glass, Plexiglas, fiberglass, wire mesh, plastic sheet, bubblewrap, silicone and wire
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 10, 2017
Artists in conversation
Richard Serra
American · b. 1938
Serra's monumental sculptures using raw industrial materials like steel share Tuazon's commitment to brutal physicality and architectural scale. Both artists foreground the weight and presence of utilitarian industrial materials as the primary sculptural language.
Theaster Gates
American · b. 1973
Gates assembles found and salvaged architectural materials into dense layered structures that blur the boundary between sculpture and building, closely mirroring Tuazon's repurposing of protective and construction components. Both artists engage a raw hands on aesthetic rooted in utilitarian objects and industrial remnants.
Monika Sosnowska
Polish · b. 1972
Sosnowska transforms architectural elements and structural building components into precarious sculptural installations that challenge expectations of safety and containment, directly paralleling Tuazon's Glassed Slab. Her work shares the same tension between functional industrial materials and destabilized sculptural form.
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