Richard Rezac: Tracery

Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the Chicago-based sculptor, Richard Rezac. This will be Rezac’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in over a decade. Starting from drawing, Richard Rezac is known to carefully craft sculptures of a distinctly unique character in a variety of materials, including aluminum, bronze, paint, maple wood, cherry wood, plaster, silk, and cotton. They have obvious references to furniture and architectural detail and always insist on their domestic relatability to the human body. The work has a fluid relationship with matter-of-factness, which is where it dovetails into the uncanny. At first glance, it might seem familiar or explainable in everyday terms, but upon closer inspection, it reveals itself to be something much stranger and altogether mystifying. Yet more deliberate sculpture could hardly be said to exist. “At times his devotion,” remarked the painter Thomas Nozkowski, “to getting some little thing right seems most religious in its fervor.”