2001.264.a-e, Charles Ray, "One - Stop Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa", 1971/1998, concrete blocks and painted steel


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
Consisting of five separate yet related elements of metal, concrete blocks, and forged wire beams, One-Stop Gallery, Iowa City looks like a giant assortment of strange toys that have been spilled onto the gallery's floor. Ray introduces ideas of suspension and risk and of the elegant, machine-like pleasure of formal precision. The work teases the eye and mind to explain its odd dual sense of playfulness and danger.

Excerpt from
Charles Wylie, Label text, Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections, 2003.

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PROVENANCE 
Until 2001: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY [1]

From 2001: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above

[1] See check #9065 in Collections Records Object File 2001.264.a-e

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  • YouTube~Watch a long-form lecture by Charles Ray, the first in a series of three, given at the Menil Collection in 2015 entitled,"Thoughts on Sculpture.".

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Consisting of five separate yet related elements of metal, concrete blocks, and forged wire beams, One-Stop Gallery, Iowa City looks like a giant assortment of strange toys that have been spilled onto the gallery's floor. Ray introduces ideas of suspension and risk and of the elegant, machine-like pleasure of formal precision. The work teases the eye and mind to explain its odd dual sense of playfulness and danger.

Excerpt from
Charles Wylie, Label text, Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections, 2003.

Fun Facts

Archival Resources

Web Resources
 
  • YouTube~Watch a long-form lecture by Charles Ray, the first in a series of three, given at the Menil Collection in 2015 entitled,"Thoughts on Sculpture.".

Notes
  • updated provenance and geo x refs

Catalogue essays

Artist/designers

Cultures

Geography 

Process/materials

Historical periods

Individuals

Subject terms

RELATED OBJECTS 

PROVENANCE 
Until 2001: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY [1]

From 2001: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above

[1] See check #9065 in Collections Records Object File 2001.264.a-e

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