Sven Lukin, Frances ColpittBranches

“In the 1960s, Sven Lukin (born 1934 in Riga, Latvia) introduced the art world to the shaped canvas. Then, in 1972, firmly established among the New York avant-garde, he left the scene. Since then, Lukin has lived and worked quietly in the same Midtown, Manhattan studio, experimenting with canvases fashioned from tree branches and stretched jute. Branches presents, for the first time in print, twenty-five sculptures from this little-known part of Lukin’s oeuvre, accompanied by essays by historian Frances Colpitt.”