Casting Genesis

The familiar, the quotidian, the unexalted—these are the subjects of George Segal’s most famous sculptures. The American artist’s best-known works may be mentally arranged as a walk through a typical small city—out the front door of a diner onto the street corner, down the road past the gas station, the dry cleaner and the park bench, up a narrow staircase to a cramped apartment, along the corridor into the bathroom, and eventually into the bedroom. There is a Segal work for each of these places. But what happens when Segal’s mind and eye are turned loose on the most […]