The artwork features a tall, slender sculptural form composed of angular, tapered white planes. The sharp, geometric lines create a sense of dynamism and movement, with the sculpture appearing to twist and spiral upwards. The minimalist design and monochromatic color palette emphasize the formal qualities of the piece, highlighting the interplay of light and shadow across the smooth, polished surfaces. This abstract, modernist sculpture likely reflects the artist's exploration of form, space, and materiality, aiming to evoke a sense of energy and transcendence through its elegant, pared-down aesthetic. ...
Eli Ping (b. 1977, Chicago, USA) is a sculptor and painter whose practice explores how objects embody their own becoming. Working across series such as Motes, Monocarps, and his shaped canvas paintings, Ping engages processes of folding, cutting, and transformation to open up spatial and temporal dimensions within solid matter. His recent floor-standing bronze works bypass traditional casting techniques in favor of a direct burnout process, resulting in calligraphic, totemic forms that blur the line between fragility and force.
Guided by a meditative attention to balance, proportion, and material resonance, Ping’s work draws from the sensuous abstraction of artists like Sam Gilliam and John Chamberlain, while echoing the modernist clarity of Brancusi and Giacometti. Across media, he constructs a visual language of tension and stillness, inviting viewers into a philosophical encounter with matter, form, and perception.
Recent solo exhibitions include Hard Goods at Bernheim, London (2025); Stamina at C L E A R I N G, New York (2024); Micki Meng, New York (2024); Bernheim, Zürich (2022); ANDNOW, Dallas (2022); and Ramiken Crucible, New York (2020, 2021). ...
C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...
