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Larry Kagan — Raining in San Francisco / Going Home after Work
Larry Kagan

Raining in San Francisco / Going Home after Work

2019

A tangle of welded steel wire hangs from the wall in apparent disorder, casting what seems at first like an incidental shadow. Then the light hits, and the chaos resolves: the shadow thrown by Larry Kagan's "Raining in San Francisco / Going Home after Work" (2019) is a crisp, legible scene of figures moving through rain, rendered with the clarity of a mid-century illustration. The sculpture operates as two simultaneous realities, one physical and one projected, and the collector who lives with it encounters a small daily astonishment each time the light source aligns. Kagan has spent decades refining this practice of engineered revelation, working at the intersection of sculpture, drawing, and optics. The steel elements are not decorative; each bend and arc is calculated to contribute to a precise photographic shadow while remaining visually abstract on its own terms. The result is a work that rewards close attention to craft as much as to concept. There is nothing digital or mechanically assisted in the process. The image emerges entirely from the geometry of bent metal and the behavior of directed light, making the hand of the artist present in every curve. Works from this body of practice hold particular appeal for collectors interested in the phenomenological traditions of late-twentieth-century sculpture, as well as those drawn to work that transforms with changing conditions in a domestic or institutional space. "Raining in San Francisco / Going Home after Work" carries an additional layer of narrative warmth, its subject evoking the quotidian poetry of urban life, commuters, weather, the specific texture of a city at dusk. Available through Louis K. Meisel Gallery, the piece represents Kagan at a mature and fully realized moment in his practice.

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Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

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Larry Kagan, Raining in San Francisco / Going Home after Work, 2019

A tangle of welded steel wire hangs from the wall in apparent disorder, casting what seems at first like an incidental shadow. Then the light hits, and the chaos resolves: the shadow thrown by Larry Kagan's "Raining in San Francisco / Going Home after Work" (2019) is a crisp, legible scene of figures moving through rain, rendered with the clarity of a mid-century illustration. The sculpture operates as two simultaneous realities, one physical and one projected, and the collector who lives with it encounters a small daily astonishment each time the light source aligns. Kagan has spent decades refining this practice of engineered revelation, working at the intersection of sculpture, drawing, and optics. The steel elements are not decorative; each bend and arc is calculated to contribute to a precise photographic shadow while remaining visually abstract on its own terms. The result is a work that rewards close attention to craft as much as to concept. There is nothing digital or mechanically assisted in the process. The image emerges entirely from the geometry of bent metal and the behavior of directed light, making the hand of the artist present in every curve. Works from this body of practice hold particular appeal for collectors interested in the phenomenological traditions of late-twentieth-century sculpture, as well as those drawn to work that transforms with changing conditions in a domestic or institutional space. "Raining in San Francisco / Going Home after Work" carries an additional layer of narrative warmth, its subject evoking the quotidian poetry of urban life, commuters, weather, the specific texture of a city at dusk. Available through Louis K. Meisel Gallery, the piece represents Kagan at a mature and fully realized moment in his practice.

Year
2019
Seen at
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, United States

Related themes

Rain Figure, Living Artist, Mixed Reality, Conceptual, Urban Life, American, Sculpture, Steel Wire, Shadow Art, Narrative Scene, Transformation, Domestic Space, Figurative Shadow, Welded steel, Geometric Abstraction, Optical Illusion, Abstract Sculpture, Wall Mounted, Phenomenological Art, Light and Shadow, Handcrafted, Contemporary

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