Blending vocabularies of modernist abstraction and contemporary popular culture, Sanford Mirling's sculptures exploit the suggestive nature of abstracted form seemingly for its own sake. These enigmatic works, with their evocative material usage and implied corporal forms, feel manipulative -they are simultaneously familiar yet equally bizarre. The warped reality from which these sculptures seem to originate is reminiscent of a hypnagogic state, that liminal space between sleep and wake where false distinctions between memory and fantasy fade away; as past, present, and future converge for the briefest of moments.

Mirling is the co-founder of the nonprofit gallery and art space in Troy, NY, Collar Works.