Elaine Grove: Sculpture

Elaine Grove’s sculpture functions both as assemblage and as fluid drawings in space. Her process, descended from the classic Constructivist tradition, is organic, summoning a poetic interaction between solid and void in found and fabricated idioms that emerge from within her studio practice. Finding inspiration in the steel sculpture of artists such as Julio Gonzalez, David Smith and Anthony Caro, Grove’s focus moved from painting to sculpture when she realized an affinity for 3-dimensionality. In her welded open form constructions, machine-age structures – neither representational nor abstract – commingle into visual tropes in which allegory, gesture and memory merge.

Grove’s attraction to historic European iconography is evident in the subtle relationships within her works. Between the body, the psyche and the artist, her tabletop sculptures move from figural postures – leaning, bending, nodding, standing – to wholly abstract constructions.

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