Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstract Expressionism

At Guggenheim Exhibitions in New York, “Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstract Expressionism” traces how postwar artists carried the energy of Abstract Expressionism into three dimensions. The show looks at objects made through binding, ripping, and dispersing material, where process is left visible and meaning is built from damage, weight, and gravity. In a city that helped define the period’s painting scene, the exhibition reads like a local afterimage, charting what came next. It makes a quiet case that sculptural gesture can be as historically charged as brushwork.