Two little boys were playing around James Sansing's sculpture at the First Thursday reception. It was fitting, because the artwork is exactly the kind you might dream up as a child: "I'm gonna make a magic thing, really big, made of concrete, that can fly. It's going to be as big as my room!" In Sansing's case, the site-specific piece "Unified Theory" is a cement-covered block that hangs gracefully about two feet off the floor, reaching winglike appendages towards a corner and dropping baby cubes on the ceiling. It's beautiful yet silly yet serious -- and if the kids like it, it must be special.
May 7-June 27, 2009
