I went to an exhibition at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn this afternoon to see an exhibition titled "Real, Surreal, and Photoreal." It is about different types of "realism" in art. Near the end of my visit I spotted this folded white shirt in a display case behing glass, and nearly missed it. I thought "why is that shirt there?" When I looked more closely at the object, it turns out that it is carved from marble! That is astounding. Finding that out makes my mind flip! Finding out the shirt is marble made me think that it is a monument to my propensity to wear white shirts! The artist and sculptor for several objects on display including this shirt and, get this, a roll of toilet tissue, also made from marble is Jud Nelson, and the category of his work is called "Sculptural Realism." From the curator: "His three-dimensional depictions are always white and carved out of marble. Ghostlike surrogates of the real thing, they assume a special authority because of their appearance of being real: color mostly true to the subject, and hand carved to its exact size, in a material mostly associated with classical art. Nelson’s work always questions the reality of physical existence and appeals to some alienated modern sense of the existentially absurd." Hope that helps understand this a bit more.
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