Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things: Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY

Presenting a wide range of sculpture from the artist’s decades-long career, Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things explores how Mel Kendrick (American, b. 1949) exploits the essential properties of his selected medium to create sculptures that inherently lay bare the process by which they were made.

Since the 1970s, Mel Kendrick has charted a unique and innovative path of experimentation, making objects with a sustained and concentrated intensity. Aesthetically informed by both process-oriented conceptual art and minimalism, his rejection of narrative and illusion in favor of works that are self-contained and self-referential has led to an ever-evolving interrogation of the function and possibilities of sculpture. Bringing together over 70 works that span nearly five decades, this exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the development of one of the boldest and most consistently adventurous artists of his generation.