Bruce Gagnier, Odille, hydrocal plaster, 67 x 22 x 18 inches, 2017
BRUCE GAGNIER: CITIZENS
John Yau writes, “The tension between classicism and chaos is one of the many things that sets Bruce Gagnier’s art apart from figurative sculpture stretching back to Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, and Edgar Degas.” For his debut at Equity Gallery’s new courtyard exhibition space, Gagnier will show an ensemble of largely life-sized bronze sculptures that have been described as inside-out representations; works that make visible the internal struggles of the human psyche rather than the armored reflection of the ego and its will to perfection.
Bruce Gagnier attended Skowhegan School and received a BFA from Williams College and an MFA from Columbia University. Solo exhibitions in New York include Lori Bookstein Fine Art, M13 Gallery, Leslie Cecil Gallery, and Thomas Park Gallery. Additional solo exhibitions include Gaumann Cicchino Gallery, in Fort Lauderdale, Thomas Park Gallery Seoul South Korea, Gallery JJ Seoul South Korea, the ISA Gallery, Montecastello di Vibio Italy, the University of Kentucky, Haverford College and the New York Studio School Gallery.