Larry Kagan: Men presents steel sculptures that reveal a second, ephemeral image when illuminated from a calculated angle — abstract assemblages of metal casting strikingly detailed shadow figures onto the wall behind them. Kagan begins with a preconceived shadow image and works backward, constructing the steel configuration that will produce it. Trained as an engineer before studying under sculptor Richard Stankiewicz, Kagan has worked exclusively in metal since the 1980s, expanding the definition of Realism through an interplay between solid form and liminal illusion — the tangible giving rise to the intangible.
