Description

Presenting 70 sculptural works from 1848 to the present, “The Shape of Power” will explore how sculpture can shape the ways people visualize and understand race and racial difference across time and shifting cultural attitudes. This ambitious exhibition will expose the hierarchies that are so often embodied in sculpture and advance conversations about the enduring power of American sculpture as a cultural force. The presentation will critically examine historical works by artists who have long dominated narratives of American sculpture and will share a fuller history of American art by centering diverse artists who have been omitted from the canon, owing in part to their use of materials and techniques that contrast starkly with the academic media of marble and bronze.