All Most
Phoebe Adams, American, born 1953
Date:
1989Medium:
Bronze, copper, woodDimensions:
7 feet 4 inches × 43 inches × 32 1/2 inches (223.5 × 109.2 × 82.6 cm)Curatorial Department:
Contemporary ArtObject Location:
1989-88-1Credit Line:
Purchased with the Julius Bloch Memorial Fund created by Benjamin D. Bernstein, 1989
1989Medium:
Bronze, copper, woodDimensions:
7 feet 4 inches × 43 inches × 32 1/2 inches (223.5 × 109.2 × 82.6 cm)Curatorial Department:
Contemporary ArtObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1989-88-1Credit Line:
Purchased with the Julius Bloch Memorial Fund created by Benjamin D. Bernstein, 1989
Label:
A tall, seemingly precariously balanced structure, Phoebe Adams's All Most conveys a sense of tension and instability. A copper tub, filled with a substance that looks like sludge that is oozing downward, perches atop a found apple-picking ladder turned upside down. The position of each part is contingent upon the others, and the sculpture is designed so that visitors-no matter how tall-cannot see the top, thus emphasizing the work's looming impression. In this piece, Adams explores the relationship between the purely physical and the evocative aspects of a work of art.
A tall, seemingly precariously balanced structure, Phoebe Adams's All Most conveys a sense of tension and instability. A copper tub, filled with a substance that looks like sludge that is oozing downward, perches atop a found apple-picking ladder turned upside down. The position of each part is contingent upon the others, and the sculpture is designed so that visitors-no matter how tall-cannot see the top, thus emphasizing the work's looming impression. In this piece, Adams explores the relationship between the purely physical and the evocative aspects of a work of art.
