Maxwell Davidson Gallery : Artists : George Rickey

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE & LISTING

George Rickey
Selected Works from the Estate
April 1 - May 17, 2008
Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
4:00 - 7:00 pm

New York, NY, March 1, 2008 - The Maxwell Davidson Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by George Rickey. While this is an unprecedented fifteenth exhibition for the artist at the Maxwell Davidson Gallery, it marks the first time the Estate of George Rickey has made a significant group of works available for sale. The exhibition will be retrospective in scope, tracing the 50-year evolution of Rickey's career as a sculptor from 1950 to 2001.

What is intriguing about George Rickey's career is that although his dedicated sculpture making did not start until the artist was already in his forties, he is thought of as one of the great sculptors of the last century. Rickey worked tirelessly until the end of his life, his passion for redefining kinetic innovations never ceasing. As an artist, Rickey was always pushing the ideas of movement to the brink, yet he always stayed within his oeuvre. His career spanned five decades and countless transformations, of which almost all are captured in this 50-year survey.

The exhibition will include one of Rickey's earliest sculptures, SUN AND MOON (1951), where the influence of Alexander Calder is evident. Another historically seminal sculpture is SEDGE THEME SMALL VARIATION I (1961), Rickey's first-ever reverse knife edge bearing sculpture, which not only helped vault the artist onto the international art scene but made possible all the angled-blade sculptures that followed. The exhibition continues by highlighting Rickey's early polychromed works and the minimal works of the 1970s and '80s, as well as the outdoor works that can be seen in museum sculpture gardens around the world.

A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Deborah Balken and Werner Feibes will accompany the exhibition. For more information please contact Tara Marino at 212-759-7555 or at info@davidsongallery.com.<