Barry X Ball

Barry X Ball is a sculptor born in 1955 in Pasadena, CA. He lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Nasher Sculpture Center, and is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

As a student, my favorite artists were Duchamp, Picasso, Frank Stella, Walter De Maria, et al. I loved the radicality of Analytic Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Conceptual Art. Within a few years, the Modernists were joined, and somewhat supplanted, by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio, et al in my personal canon. And so I became a time-traveler.

Barry X Ball, Buddha, 2018–25. Sculpture: Golden Honeycomb calcite, wounded Mexican (Baja) onyx, French Rouge de Roi marble, translucent pink Iranian onyx; pedestal top: white Vietnamese marble; lower pedestal assembly: stainless steel, wood, acrylic lacquer, steel, nylon, plastic. Sculpture: 39.4 x 26.5 x 27.3 inches; pedestal top: 6 x 35 x 35 inches; lower pedestal assembly: 30.5 x 27 x 27 inches. After a lacquer and gilt wood figure of a seated Amida Nyorai (Amitābha) Japan, 15th/16th century, Muromachi / Momoyama period.

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