Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Richard Van Buren: The 1970s, an exhibition of sculpture and drawings at 529 West 20th Street. Opening on Tuesday, November 26, 2013, the exhibition is the first ever large-scale presentation of Van Buren's work from this period. Fifteen of the artist's densely layered abstract sculptures will be on view, including a twenty-foot floor piece, Bennington (1970) and Strata (1977), a fourteen-foot wall piece. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with an essay by Carter Ratcliff. The exhibition and its accompanying publication provide a survey of the artist's work during the 1970s--polyester biomorphs impregnated with materials as seemingly disparate as rock salt, cadmium, and wallpaper paste. Bennington--a highlight of the exhibition--consists of eight brightly colored elements cast from Mylar sheets buried in a snowbank. This piece marks the beginning of Van Buren's career-long fascination with the relationship between natural/organic forms and man-made/inorganic materials, especially their ability to mimic each other. --Gallery website.