Charles Long’s sculptures delicately balance humor and whimsy with pathos and high classical references. In many works, Long creates anthropomorphic forms that seem to drip and seep across plinths, walls, and ground, often making reference to Modern masters like Giacometti, Dali, and Guston. Driven by a sincere pursuit of answers to existential questions, and imbued with a healthy dose of imagination and play, the works explore the artist’s relationship with the processes of time, the flow between inner and outer experience, and the building up and breaking down of realities. Sculptural interventions make the ordinary strange and comical, highlighting our somatic experience even within a designed and governed space.
