CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/16/2016

Carol Bove: Polka Dots

Featured image is reproduced from Carol Bove: Polka Dots, an exquisitely-designed and -produced artist's book published to accompany Bove's current show at David Zwirner gallery, closing tomorrow. Called "sculpture's woman of steel" by Roberta Smith of the New York Times and the "sculptor who bends steel as if it were plastic" by Stephanie Eckardt of W magazine, Bove designed Polka Dots in close collaboration with Joseph Logan, basing it around a series of photographs by Andreas Laszlo Konrath, who documented the work in situ in the artist's industrial Red Hook studio. "There's a space between the artwork as it was at its inception and the artwork as it becomes over time," Bove is quoted in Johanna Burton's essay. "[It is necessary to somehow] close the gap between these two positions."