#contemporary-sculpture

#contemporary-sculpture

'Sanctuary' is a reminder of just how singular an artist Puryear is. It's a serious work of contemporary art that seems to have fallen out of a fairy tale-not the monophonic Disney kind but the capricious, found-object kind collected by the Brothers Grimm, in which the moral is oblique, anything can come to life, and nobody leaves unscathed. Born in 1941, Puryear came of age at a time when sculpture was flexing its muscle through intimidating scale, conceptual rigor, and protractor-perfect geometries.

For artist ektor garcia, no piece is ever truly finished-only paused. His sculptures, built from hours of crocheting, weaving and casting, resist the idea of permanence. In Loose Ends, garcia's first solo museum exhibition in his home state of California, San José Museum of Art presents his sprawling installation, and more works, that embody his ethos of continual transformation.

De Lara transforms everyday tools, plants, and furniture into anthropomorphic and surreal forms. These works act as vessels of memory, resilience, and humor, but also as pointed reflections on the immigrant experience, queer identity, and the liminal space of DACA status, the temporary US policy that offers young undocumented immigrants protection from deportation and the ability to work legally, though without a path to permanent residency or citizenship.

"My fascination with inflatable structures began when I realized how absurd, tender, and unstable they could be-all at once. Unlike rigid materials, inflatables breathe, wobble, collapse, and revive."

Artists Saman and Sasan Oskouei create abstract landscapes that visually intertwine elements of nature with contemporary industrial materials, offering a thought-provoking commentary on human-nature relationships.