Sculpture by Bruce Beasley

"Bruce Beasley was discovered in 1960 by Dorothy Miller, the curator of painting and sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Miller included Beasley in MOMA's 1961 seminal exhibition The Art of Assemblage, which featured such luminaries as Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Louise Nevelson, and Robert Rauschenberg. The following year MOMA acquired one of Beasley's sculptures, making him at age twenty-two the youngest artist to be included in the museum's permanent collection. In 1963, André Malraux, the French minister of culture and famous writer and philosopher, awarded Beasley the Purchase Prize in the Paris Biennale. Beasley followed this auspicious beginning by becoming one of his generation's most productive and innovative sculptors. A self-described "unrepentant modernist," Beasley continues in the tradition of modernist abstract sculptors such as David Smith, Anthony Caro, and Eduardo Chillida, pursuing ure form and shape as an expressive and communicative human language. Beasley's sculpture is profoundly and proudly visual. Rather than resembling any one thing, his works evoke many things. His sculptures immerse the viewer in an experience of form that triggers feelings and sensations." --