Alien Huddle

1993–95 · Sculpture

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Joined, swollen spheres form Martin Puryear's Alien Huddle, a pine-and-cedar sculpture of 1993–95 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. The timber and rounded organic shapes establish the close relationship between material and form found in his sculpture. Puryear draws on traditions extending from modernist abstraction to Indigenous African crafts. Boatbuilding and contemporary technology also inform his methods. He combines these sources in abstract objects that carry cultural and historical associations, bringing different kinds of making into the same body of work.

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With its bulbous joined spheres made of pine and cedar, Alien Huddle reveals the close relationship between organic form and material that is emblematic of Martin Puryear's sculpture. A great breadth of aesthetic traditions informs his work, including modernist abstraction, Indigenous African crafts, boat building, and recent technology. Puryear brings these together to create a distinctive body of abstract work animated by cultural, social, and historical references.

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