Lesley Vance & Ricky Swallow
Ricky Swallow, from “Lesley Vance & Ricky Swallow” Photography: Fredrik Nilsen.
At the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Nov. 10, 2012–March 11, 2013.
A review from the Los Angeles Times:
The show pairs Swallow with painter Lesley Vance, who also happens to be his wife. The two have never shown together, but it is an inspired pairing. Swallow’s sculptures — which are bronze, in fact, though cast from cardboard — riff on the forms of common objects like coffee cups, clocks and magnifying glasses to produce playful, idiosyncratically elegant works that ride the line between realism and abstraction.
Most are much smaller than the piece in the window, with an objet d’art scale that feels right at home in these galleries. They have a weight here, a sense of gravity and substance, that wasn’t as apparent in Swallow’s 2011 show at Mark Foxx, where the playful character could more easily be mistaken for glib.
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