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This striking outdoor sculpture by Nick Van Woert presents a vertical stack of organic boulder-like forms cast in warm bronzed metal, creating a totemic presence that evokes both geological strata and human figuration. Installed in the rear garden of a West 11th Street townhouse in Greenwich Village, the work commands the space with its textured surface and reflective warmth against the lush bamboo backdrop. The piece was positioned within a minimalist landscape designed by Rees Roberts and Partners, amplifying its contrast between raw organic form and refined architectural setting. A compelling example of Van Woert's exploration of material transformation and natural imagery in sculptural form.
- Medium
- Metal sculpture
- Spotted At
- A Private Home · West 11th St Townhouse
Notes
Sculpture featured in an Instagram post by @stevenharrisarchitects. Floating staircase and sculpture are focal elements of the rear yard. Image credit: Peter Murdock. Post liked by steve_ziel_actor and others. 344 likes, 8 comments as of screenshot.
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Roxy Paine
American · b. 1966
Paine creates large scale outdoor metal sculptures with stacked and organic accumulative forms that share the same totemic verticality and textured surface quality seen in Van Woert's bronzed boulder stack. His work similarly occupies garden and landscape settings where industrial casting techniques produce forms that feel simultaneously geological and figurative.
Ursula von Rydingsvard
American · b. 1942
Von Rydingsvard builds monumental stacked and layered sculptural forms with deeply textured surfaces that evoke organic geological strata and ancient totemic presences, qualities central to Van Woert's bronzed column. Her bronze cast works in particular share the warm metallic surface and vertically accumulative structure of this specific piece.
Tony Cragg
British · b. 1949
Cragg produces cast bronze and metal sculptures with rippling organic surfaces and stacked vertical forms that balance between abstraction and figuration, closely mirroring the totemic boulder like quality of Van Woert's work. His outdoor installations similarly command garden and architectural spaces through textured metallic warmth and geological visual rhythm.
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