‘Metal Plastic Paint’ features new outdoor and pedestal-based sculptures by Aaron Curry (@baddimension). In these aluminum sculptures rendered at a range of different scales, Curry continues to investigate the spatial and material tensions between artistic mediums and modes of mark-making. While certain components of these objects—the abstract shapes they contain, as well as their rivets and other details of their industrial construction—invite associations with modernist public sculptures by Alexander Calder, their fabrication in aluminum preserves a delicate sense of Curry’s hand, paradoxically evoking the immediacy of painting or the handcrafted aesthetic qualities of wooden sculpture. These works originate as drawings in Curry’s sketchbook; the sketches are then rendered digitally and constructed as paper maquettes. These alchemical transformations allow the artist to maintain the warm, idiosyncratic presence of his gestures in a fixed and durable metallic material—freezing them, Medusa-like, in painted aluminum. ‘Metal Plastic Paint’ will be on view September 17 through October 22, 2022. Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, September 17 from 6 until 8 PM at our Los Angeles gallery. Image: #AaronCurry, ‘Weird Wave With The Sun In Its Eye,’ 2022, painted aluminum and synthetic polymer. Photo: Lee Thompson