Thought in Material: Selected Works 1984-2025
January 15 — February 21, 2026
Opening Reception: January 15, 6–8pm
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone presents its first survey of Andrew Lord’s sculptural works, spanning the artist’s production over the last 40 years. Comprising clay and bronze objects that illuminate the artist’s conceptual approach to ceramics, the exhibition foregrounds the remarkable breadth of Lord’s experimental and experiential oeuvre while revealing the harmony of his vision across decades. Eschewing function and decoration—elements that have historically relegated ceramics to the realm of craft—Lord’s work investigates subjects ranging from the tactility of making to the light in Impressionist painting, from childhood memories of landscapes in his native England, to the atmospheric conditions on Carson Mesa, New Mexico.
Work
About
Andrew Lord (b. 1950, Rochdale, England) is based in New York and works across the United States and Europe. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at international institutions including a presentation in the Sculpture Gallery of Thirty pieces. Sorrow (for T.) and other works (with Carl Andre) at Kröller Müller Museum, Netherlands; unslumbrous night, Gladstone Gallery, New York; Unslumbrous Night, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2017), Sorrow, a sculpture of thirty pieces and related work, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2017); On Carson Mesa, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich (2014); Milton Keynes Gallery, England (2010); Between my hands to water falling, selected works from 1990 to 2010, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California (2010); Whitworth, Gladstone Gallery (2009); New Sculpture, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Netherlands (2003); New Sculpture, Camden Arts Centre, London (1996); Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (1993); Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London (1990). He has also been included in group exhibitions including: Atelier 15, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Westkunst. Heute, Museen der Stadt Köln; Anderer Leute Kunst, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld; 1995 Whitney Biennial; Site and Insight, MoMA PS1, New York; The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo; Artists and Poets, Secession, Vienna.