Phyllida Barlow introduces her exhibition ‘glimpse’ in Los Angeles

Phyllida Barlow has continuously challenged the conventions of sculpture. Infusing humble materials such as cardboard, fabric, plywood, and cement with a boundless energy, she persuades the viewer to experience form on its own terms rather than to reflexively project meaning onto it. ‘glimpse,’ the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in her celebrated five-decade career, features an ambitious presentation of new large-scale works assembled on site and in response to the gallery’s physical adaptation of the historic Globe Mills, a collection of late 19th and early 20th century buildings.
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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco and Menorca.
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[@vidiot509]

I feel in tune with Phyllida's approach to art and sculpture, I am happy to say that I feel part of her tribe. As an amateur sculpture buff, I find her views on imagination and perspective really vital to my own input and output.😍 Thanks for posting !

[@seankelley5019]

I have been inspired to love ART work more thank you for your overwhelming perspective of life and art Phyllida so honest and true.

[@davidlubotsky7908]

She is absolutely a dedicated artist that at a glance is misunderstood by most as her obsession is a reflection of her observance of what is societal decay as she observes urban landscape.she breaks all the classical rules including her approach to creating and the materials she uses. None of her work is pretty and she doesn't mean for it to be. You must learn more about her in order to more appreciate her language of conceptual design that literally emerges from that of a garbage pile and she finds an order from this as we all must also pick up the pieces from our own shattered existence in order to forge our future destiny. I very much appreciate how this gallery is as a Museum of contemporary art that affords such strange creations a stage to perform.

[@jonasktew6857]

I love her work and she also speaks so beautifully!!!

[@antoniocasalduerorecuero9383]

Nunca ha dejado de sorprenderme la imaginación y la creatividad de los artistas, son personas capaces de ver y de recrear en su mente figuras, sonidos o formas inexistentes, sacarlas de esa nada y darle una forma independientemente de la realidad que nos rodea.

[@theOPENDOORORCHESTRA]

so refreshing! Thanks

[@christopherelliman]

fabulous!

[@pamelahudson6747]

Wonderful✨🎆🎆✨

[@JoyceDade]

🌼💐🌼 Amazing 🌼💐🌼 Astonishing

[@CloudsRainmaker1111]

❤

[@KpxUrz5745]

Somebody has to say it, so here goes. I've been around the so-called Art World for a long time, and I refuse to attend exhibits like this one. Why? Because I've viewed similar ones in the past, and refuse to subject myself to such insults any longer. Insults to my knowledge of art history, to my artistic sensibilities, and to my intelligence. No thank you. I now vote with my feet. This is not art, and please do not tell me that art is subjective.

[@davidmcdonald6575]

You can have your opinion about the work but to say it isn't art displays a lack of understanding.

[@________._-]

so brave 🙄

[@KpxUrz5745]

@@davidmcdonald6575 It exactly does not display a lack of understanding. I have multiple degree in Fine Arts, including Ivy League, and have studied with some of the very foremost art historians and prominent artists too numerous to mention. I know exactly the thought process and backgrounds of artists who create such works. I also know that they always lack concrete skills that for millenia have always been requisite to become a functioning artist of any merit: specifically the ability to draw and paint. (I would include sculpt but that is totally a lost art by now). And I know exactly why galleries, museums, and other venues permit such installations while pretending that the public should all be kowtowed into accepting such space-filling random piles of materials as art in this day and age. My view is more than just an opinion.

[@davidmcdonald6575]

@@KpxUrz5745 Do you see the ability to draw and paint as being good at rendering? Do you know much about Barlow and her background? She to had an academic training and was a teacher in London for about forty years. I'm sure you she has the technical skills you speak of but finds her way of working more true to herself and the her times. You say you know why museums allow artists to do the type of work she does but you don't explain, can you be more specific?

[@ergosrg6846]

who hurt you