Mel Kendrick

About this book

Spanning the entirety of the artists career Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things charts the singular trajectory of one of the countrys most adventurous sculptors. With more than 100 works representing four decades this is the definitive monograph on abstract sculptor Mel Kendrick who first emerged in 1970s New York where he studied with legends Tony Smith and Robert Morris. At a time when Minimal and Conceptual art dominated Kendrick forged his own path embarking on a career-long series of provocative investigations into the fundamentals and possibilities of sculpture his restless experimentations with form scale and materiality realized in wood rubber cast paper or concrete. Essays by Nancy Princenthal Allison N. Kemmerer Terrie Sultan and Adam D. Weinberg and a conversation between Kendrick and fellow artist Carroll Dunham provide fascinating perspective on forty years of art making in the aftermath of Minimalism.