OF A DIFFERENT STATE
Mel Kendrick's clustered black-and-white cast-concrete sculptures in Madison Square Park look like they're on the march up Manhattan Island. Each is about the side of a Mini Cooper stood on end, and all of them radiate a strangely formal uncanniness. They're lumpen warlocks or Cubist chain-gang golems - what Rodin's Burghers of Calais might resemble if they were put through a band saw, turned into Alice in Wonderland chessmen, and allowed to wander (on view through December 31).
JERRY SALTZ
Mel Kendrick's clustered black-and-white cast-concrete sculptures in Madison Square Park look like they're on the march up Manhattan Island. Each is about the side of a Mini Cooper stood on end, and all of them radiate a strangely formal uncanniness. They're lumpen warlocks or Cubist chain-gang golems - what Rodin's Burghers of Calais might resemble if they were put through a band saw, turned into Alice in Wonderland chessmen, and allowed to wander (on view through December 31).
JERRY SALTZ
December 14, 2009
