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Nathan Mabry — Composition (Loop/Pool/Polo)
Nathan Mabry — Composition (Loop/Pool/Polo)
Nathan Mabry — Composition (Loop/Pool/Polo)
Nathan Mabry

Composition (Loop/Pool/Polo)

2015

Composition (Loop/Pool/Polo) presents Nathan Mabry's characteristically playful yet rigorous approach to sculpture, combining aluminum, bronze, and paint into a wall-mounted work that hovers between decorative object and conceptual proposition. Mabry is drawn to the slippery territory where language, symbol, and material culture collide, and this piece reflects that preoccupation through its title alone, a single word rotated through three anagram variants that are visually and phonetically distinct yet fundamentally identical in their letters. The work invites the viewer to consider how meaning is constructed and destabilized by something as simple as rearrangement, while its mixed-metal fabrication grounds these linguistic games in physical weight and craft. Mabry, who is based in Los Angeles, has built a practice that draws equally from art history, popular iconography, and the formal traditions of Minimalism and Conceptualism. Works like this one sit comfortably in dialogue with artists who interrogated the relationship between form and language, from Lawrence Weiner to John Baldessari, while maintaining a sensibility that is distinctly contemporary and California-inflected. The combination of aluminum and bronze introduces a quiet tension between industrial fabrication and sculptural tradition, reinforcing the sense that Mabry is always negotiating between registers. Measuring 106.7 by 58.4 by 27.9 centimeters and bearing the artist's signature, this 2015 work represents a strong example from a productive period in Mabry's output. It is offered without a frame, as is appropriate for its wall-relief format, and will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

Medium
Aluminum, bronze, paint
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Nathan Mabry, Composition (Loop/Pool/Polo), 2015

Composition (Loop/Pool/Polo) presents Nathan Mabry's characteristically playful yet rigorous approach to sculpture, combining aluminum, bronze, and paint into a wall-mounted work that hovers between decorative object and conceptual proposition. Mabry is drawn to the slippery territory where language, symbol, and material culture collide, and this piece reflects that preoccupation through its title alone, a single word rotated through three anagram variants that are visually and phonetically distinct yet fundamentally identical in their letters. The work invites the viewer to consider how meaning is constructed and destabilized by something as simple as rearrangement, while its mixed-metal fabrication grounds these linguistic games in physical weight and craft. Mabry, who is based in Los Angeles, has built a practice that draws equally from art history, popular iconography, and the formal traditions of Minimalism and Conceptualism. Works like this one sit comfortably in dialogue with artists who interrogated the relationship between form and language, from Lawrence Weiner to John Baldessari, while maintaining a sensibility that is distinctly contemporary and California-inflected. The combination of aluminum and bronze introduces a quiet tension between industrial fabrication and sculptural tradition, reinforcing the sense that Mabry is always negotiating between registers. Measuring 106.7 by 58.4 by 27.9 centimeters and bearing the artist's signature, this 2015 work represents a strong example from a productive period in Mabry's output. It is offered without a frame, as is appropriate for its wall-relief format, and will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

Medium
Aluminum, bronze, paint
Dimensions
overall: 106.7 x 58.4 x 27.9 cm
Year
2015
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Rago/Wright/LAMA/Toomey & Co.

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