Conduit Gallery is honored to present Dynamatic, an exhibition of sculptures and textiles by Brooklyn based artist, Kendall Glover. This will be the third solo exhibition of Glover’s work at Conduit Gallery.

At first sight, Kendall Glover’s steel sculptures might belie her background in textile studies and more strongly suggest the virile heritage of monumental American metal sculptors. While the latter may be unavoidably present, it is in reality of only distant concern to the artist, its specificity being firmly upstaged by her use of the wide potential offered by an array of materials ranging from cast and constructed metals to crocheted thread in the scope of this presentation, and extending to rattan reed, collage, and a wide range of found materials beyond the curatorial premise of Dynamatic, the current exhibition at Conduit Gallery.

Dynamatic presents a selection of works from three distinct sculptural series, all produced within the last year. Most loudly staking a claim to commanding the gallery space are three tubular steel sculptures, that seem as poetic as they are industrial, their multi-gauge tubes curiously connected together with both welds and wing-nuts. Another series presents small experimental works in bronze that have been cast from intriguing constructions made from bent rattan held together by thread, creating a quite mysterious presence through the process of their transformation into metal. The most discreet series of the three continues the artist’s interest in the subtle ambiguities of materials, through the production of a large number of silver-leafed crocheted works. The Quasars at once evoke textiles, drawing and architecture, as well as abstract form that nevertheless suggests purpose and artifact.

The raw steel sculptures, strikingly sincere in their materiality, evoke movement and changeability through their gestural forms and the literal pinning of removable fasteners. The visible tool marks and scars recapitulate this temporality. Spontaneity and careful engineering combine to form delicately balanced abstractions in postures suggestive of figuration and movement, much in conversation with their more duplicitous counterparts.

The series of bronze sculptures are cast using the burnout method, a technique in which a sculpture is trapped within a ceramic shell mold, turned to ash, and blown out, leaving a void to receive the molten metal. The original sculptures made from delicate rattan reed and linen thread exist only in the memory held by the bronze, which melds with its more fibrous elements to create an object that feels simultaneously brittle and liquid.

In the series titled Quasars, crochet’s propensity for spontaneous redirection is utilized. The ambiguous forms result from the accumulation of improvised loops in a single strand of thread. Linen is used in reference to a painter's canvas, but here substrate and form are one and the same. Silver leaf both embellishes and distorts the underlying structure.