Legendary sculptor Joel Shapiro’s new installation opened at Rice University Art Gallery, where visitors visit the gallery through March 18, 2012.

American sculptor renowned for his dynamic geometric, abstract sculptures, which appears to bound all the museum walls, floors, and sculpture gardens, comes with an entirely new body of art work, creating room-sized installations of colorful different shapes and lines that seem to fly in suspended animation.

71 year-old outclass sculptor describes his approach to the new installation art as the projection of thought into space exclusive of the control of architecture. Talking with media reporter Shapiro said that he feels like he has been working for so long to have lastly built up this moment of discovery, now getting the work off the floor to be more attractive and playful in the air.

Sculptor Shapiro was born in New York in 1941, and well known for his dynamic artwork composed of simple rectangular shapes. Shapiro is an active artist since the late 1960s and his out class artwork is represented in the permanent collections of most of the major museums around the world.

Some of his most applauded solo exhibitions include are the 1976 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1982-83, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at Washington, DC in 1987-88, in Denmark’s Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in 1990, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2001, in France at Musee d’Orsay in 2005, and in Germany’s Museum Ludwig, Cologne, at 2010.

Last year, he oversaw the sculptor installation of For Jennifer, a monumental aluminum sculpture near the newly opened Clyfford Still Museum.

The artist Shapiro represented lives and works in New York City, with a summer house on the shore of Lake Champlain, in Westport, New York and he is married to the artist Ellen Phelan.

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