Michael Workman

As we approach the date of the annual Navy Pier Walk, Terrence Karpowicz, a co-founder of that annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, opens a survey of his own sculptural work, a career spanning some 22 years. Sixty pieces will be available for viewing, an impressive collection that includes traditional and kinetic work in granite, bronze, timber and steel. Karpowicz's use of disparate materials to create a visual push-and-pull between them will provide ample opportunity for viewers to experience the perceptual trick that implies movement in dead matter that has long served as the basis of the artist's practice. His ability to render them at the joints where these materials are combined, which often seems to render even the heaviest of such materials weightless, deserves the scrutiny of a still-elusive larger audience.

Terrence Karpowicz shows at the Illinois Institute of Technology Kemper Room Art Gallery, In the Paul D. Gavin Library, 35 West 33rd Street, (312)567-3000. Through September 9.

(2005-04-05)

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