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Frieze Sculpture London 2024

Frieze Sculpture London 2024

September 18-October 27, 2024

Woody De Othello‘s new large-scale, patinated bronze is on view at Frieze Sculpture in London’s Regent’s Park through October 27. Curated by Fatoş Üstek and co-presented by Jessica Silverman, Karma, and Stephen Friedman Gallery, this is Othello’s first public artwork presented in Europe.

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Woody De Othello
seeing both sides, 2024
Patinated bronze
84 x 41 7/8 x 45 7/8 inches / 213.4 x 106.2 x 116.5 cm
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Woody De Othello, seeing both sides
Othello is internationally celebrated for his emotive and inventive approach to ceramics that transforms everyday objects through animism and anthropomorphism. Titled seeing both sides (2024), Othello’s seven-foot tall bronze for Frieze Sculpture stands confidently in the face of change and embraces multiplicity. During its creation, the artist was inspired by tools and shapes with an axis: a compass, cross, sundial, and Dogon sculptures, which often feature bilateral symmetry. His towering bronze directly engages with Dogon cosmology and beliefs that bodies are vessels and containers for spirituality, alignment and balance.
In seeing both sides, the figure is doubled or quadrupedal, with limbs extending in all four directions. While bent legs point outwards, raised arms and hands face inward to cradle the head. Complementary opposites are arranged around a central axis, connecting the earth to the sky. The figure symbolizes unity among differing perspectives, co-existing in harmony.

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Woody De Othello (b. 1991, Miami, FL) holds an MFA from the California College of Arts, San Francisco and BFA from Florida Atlantic University. His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; ICA, Miami; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Seattle Art Museum; LACMA, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San José Museum of Art, CA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; and MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy, and many more. Othello has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Hayward Gallery, London; The Met, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial; 33rd Ljubljana Biennial, Slovenia; and Center for Craft in Asheville, NC, among others. Large-scale public art commissions include San Francisco International Airport; de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and Cityline, Sunnyvale. He is represented by Jessica Silverman; Karma; and Stephen Friedman Gallery. Othello lives and works in Oakland, CA.

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