Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Ron Nagle: Ice Breaker, the next exhibition in his gallery at 1062 North Orange Grove. With nineteen new sculptures and a selection of new drawings, this is Nagle’s largest Los Angeles exhibition to date.

The sculptures, all from 2016, are presented in niches and glass vitrines designed in collaboration with the artist. The vitrines display sculptures with titles such as Historical Land Mind and Sandmandia, which are meant to be seen from above or in the round, while the niches present several works, including Elusive Combinations and Glorious Assemblage, whose branch-like forms and scroll-like bases evoke the art of bonsai. Although several sculptures employ crackle glaze and other nods to traditional pottery, the works in this exhibition are notable for the wide range of effects achieved with such contemporary materials as epoxy resin, catalyzed polyurethane, and high-gloss automotive paint mixed to the artist’s specifications and applied with an airbrush.