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Charles Long — Green Blob
Charles Long

Green Blob

2012

Green Blob (2012) presents Charles Long's singular ability to collapse the boundaries between sculpture, environment, and bodily experience into a single disorienting encounter. The large-scale biomorphic form, constructed from aluminum and fiberglass and finished in tempera paint, assumes an organic, almost living presence that resists easy categorization. Its softly luminous green surface reads simultaneously as mineral and cellular, somewhere between geological formation and something drawn from deep biological imagination. The work's considerable scale, nearly two meters in height and over three meters in length, ensures that the viewer's body is always implicated in the encounter, never at a safe observational remove. What distinguishes this work beyond its formal qualities is its integration of touch-sensitive sensors and pipe railings, inviting physical interaction as a constitutive element of the piece rather than an afterthought. Long positions touch not as spectacle but as a quiet epistemological act, a way of knowing through contact that challenges the traditionally passive role of the viewer before sculpture. This participatory dimension connects Green Blob to Long's longstanding inquiry into sensory experience, desire, and the uncanny textures of consumer culture and natural form alike. For the collector, Green Blob represents a significant and rare opportunity to acquire a work of commanding physical presence and genuine conceptual rigor from one of the more intellectually distinctive sculptors working in American contemporary art. Its current placement at Madison Square Park affirms its capacity to hold its own against the complexity of urban public space, yet the work carries an interior strangeness and intimacy that would assert itself with equal force in a private context.

Medium
Tempera paint, aluminum and fiberglass, pipe railings, touch-sensitive sensors
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Charles Long, Green Blob, 2012

Green Blob (2012) presents Charles Long's singular ability to collapse the boundaries between sculpture, environment, and bodily experience into a single disorienting encounter. The large-scale biomorphic form, constructed from aluminum and fiberglass and finished in tempera paint, assumes an organic, almost living presence that resists easy categorization. Its softly luminous green surface reads simultaneously as mineral and cellular, somewhere between geological formation and something drawn from deep biological imagination. The work's considerable scale, nearly two meters in height and over three meters in length, ensures that the viewer's body is always implicated in the encounter, never at a safe observational remove. What distinguishes this work beyond its formal qualities is its integration of touch-sensitive sensors and pipe railings, inviting physical interaction as a constitutive element of the piece rather than an afterthought. Long positions touch not as spectacle but as a quiet epistemological act, a way of knowing through contact that challenges the traditionally passive role of the viewer before sculpture. This participatory dimension connects Green Blob to Long's longstanding inquiry into sensory experience, desire, and the uncanny textures of consumer culture and natural form alike. For the collector, Green Blob represents a significant and rare opportunity to acquire a work of commanding physical presence and genuine conceptual rigor from one of the more intellectually distinctive sculptors working in American contemporary art. Its current placement at Madison Square Park affirms its capacity to hold its own against the complexity of urban public space, yet the work carries an interior strangeness and intimacy that would assert itself with equal force in a private context.

Medium
Tempera paint, aluminum and fiberglass, pipe railings, touch-sensitive sensors
Dimensions
overall: 193 x 45.7 x 309.9 cm
Year
2012
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Madison Square Park

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