"Art in Review: Mark Handforth" by Roberta Smith

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Mark Handforth's second solo show is one of the best displays of contemporary sculpture on view in New York. It crowds two wall pieces and two free-standing sculptures into a relatively small space. They collude like all get out, cross-referencing, one-upping and reversing some of sculpture's most cherished conventions and techniques.

One work is classic postwar abstraction -- two big perpendicular I-beams -- but it is handmade from nine kinds of wood, including cherry, purple heart, teak and mahogany. It is George Nakashima meets Mark DiSuvero. In addition, there is finding: a sculpture made from an objet trouvé that happens to be a streetlight, bent in three places. The scale is Oldenburg, the idea Duchamp; but a sly homage to the streetlights of Martin Kippenberg, with whom Mr. Handforth studied, may also be involved.

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