Like the wake formed by an advancing boat, the meanings of Puryear’s sculptures trail behind their formal and material richness. Puryear’s forms can be (among other possibilities) open, closed, elliptical, spherical or conical. He went to the zoo, too: “A zoo can be as stimulating as an art museum,” he rightly notes. Puryear’s sculptures can be as solid and opaque as a brickwall. The post A great American artist who urges us all to hush down appeared first on Washington Post.