The dropped ball never hits the floor in Drew Daly’s resin sculptures, which are surely a tribute to Jeff Koons’ Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank from 1985 in particular and to Lucas Samaras in general.
Now at the Greg Kucera Gallery is Daly’s Visual Fiction.
Float #2, resin and basketball, 2009
Daly makes art as if the world were a bellows, breathing in and out. On the exhale, faces, furniture and (most recently) sports equipment pull apart in fragments. On the inhale, they reform, but not necessarily in their original shapes. Two chairs become one, or one becomes two. Twelve fuse as if through an electrical current. A chest of drawers bends and flares.
Spalding 1, 2 and 3: Cut photographs, glue, Plexiglas
He’s his own fun house mirror.
Through Nov. 14. His Web site here.
The 2D work is directly derivative of other artists. The furniture work is the only work that investigates its subject matter.