Structure and Imagery

Teeth,  Will Corwin, 2018, plaster and sand, dimensions variable THE OLD GODS WILL CORWIN SEPTEMBER 6-OCTOBER 12, 2018 OPENING RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 6, 6-8PM   Geary is pleased to present Will Corwin’s The Old Gods , an exhibition of metal and plaster casts that explore how objects absorb aspiration and desire and reflect back regenerative power. Based on sculptural types drawn from Sumerian, Babylonian, Eqyptian, and Hellenistic antiquity, Corwin distills these mythological and spiritual images of deities, demons and kings down into their pure symbolic content and finds their commonalities.  He scales his sculptures so that they insert themselves directly into the presence of the viewer: his goal is to instill in the spectator a desire to hold these pieces in their hands, activating unexpected emotions of tenderness, intrigue and delight not often associated with contemporary sculpture. The sculptures are objects of personal devotion, based on amulet...

From the press release :   The Great Richmond is a crowd-sourced public sculpture/interactive diagram that is a collaboration between sculptor Will Corwin and cartographer Neil Greenberg. Corwin and Greenberg have collaborated on a monumental game-based installation that invites participants to re-imagine Staten Island, and their own particular environment, as they might want it to be: by turns a return to a semi-mythological sylvan and pastoral utopia, a much more built-up urban metropolis—a continuation of Manhattan and Jersey City across the harbor, or, on a controversial note, a seceded Staten, a new city in the constellation of the Northeast Corridor. This project is a natural extension of past work by the collaborators. Neil Greenberg works in between the disciplines of urban planning, transit implementation, and cartography. His project “Fake Omaha” invented a new American city and used this thought problem to design solutions to the very real con...