Loren Calaway
(Fresno, California, 1950 - )
Untitled
1979
Wood, woven fabric, felted fabric, and copper-alloy hardware
10 x 43 1/4 x 5 in. (25.4 x 110.0 x 12.7 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a National Gift program of Contemporary Art, is announced by the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
2009.30.4
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Calaway’s sculpture suggests a miniature table or chair, yet the artist stops just shy of producing a definitively recognizable or functional object. The work’s inability to serve as furniture—owing in part to its small scale—places it in a sort of limbo where the distinction between fine art and utilitarian object remains unclear.