Review: Nicola L., SculptureCenter
Josephine Graf, frieze
October 2017
Anthropomorphic sculptures form a mute receiving line along the central wall of Nicola L.’s retrospective at SculptureCenter. Each suggests a body but doubles as a piece of furniture: drawer handles mime nipples, plastic lips glow, lamp-like, and a foot of shiny white vinyl offers itself as a sofa. Dating from 1968, White Foot Sofa is among the earliest of the French-born artist’s ‘functional sculptures’, as she terms them, which is also the year this wide-ranging exhibition (encompassing collages, paintings, films and interactive sculptures) takes as its starting point. […]