Barry X Ball: Remaking Sculpture

On view at Nasher Sculpture Centre is “Barry X Ball: Remaking Sculpture”—the first exhibition in the US that surveys more than 20 years of highly technical but classically-inspired work by the New York artist. Since 1997, Barry x Ball’s practice pushes the physical and conceptual boundaries of sculpture, adapting innovative technologies and traditional techniques to his work. Viewers will find a selection of works from the two main series that have occupied the artist for the past 20 years: Portraits and Masterpieces. Ball’s “Portraits” series transforms precise digital scans of plaster casts of his subjects into strange and evocative sculptures that seem at once ancient and of the digital age. For the “Masterpieces” series, the artist makes high-resolution 3-D scans of original works from art history and reinterprets them in his own way.