Speaking Silence / Contemporary Sculpture

SPEAKING SILENCE / Contemporary Sculpture Gallery Shoal Creek is pleased to collaborate with Texas Sculpture Group to present this engaging exhibition, Speaking Silence. Eighteen three-dimensional works, selected from over ninety entries by Texas Sculpture Group members, will be on view in the gallery’s urban space in the Flatbed Building.

The exhibition focuses on the contemplative nature of contemporary sculpture and how artists use the language of silence to convey ideas. Artistically, each of the exhibiting sculptors meld form and material seamlessly to create objects that engage, spark curiosity, and stimulate inquiry.

In defining the parameters of the exhibition, I focused on the idea of how form and material speak as one and how the artist defines his or her voice working threedimensionally. I am particularly fascinated with the compositional relationship between the object and its surroundings and how the sculptor uses voids and negative spaces to connect the two. Undulating lines and changing angles suggest movement while evocative patterns cast shadows and illusions take hold of our imagination. Such is the magic of contemporary sculpture.

Judith Taylor, Exhibition Juror Owner, Gallery Shoal Creek