This spring, deCordova presents Sculpting with Air: Ian McMahon and Jong Oh, featuring site-specific installations by two contemporary sculptors who use different methods and materials to engage with the intangible material: air. Ian McMahon creates voluminous, pillow-like forms using an innovative technique of sprayed plaster. Jong Oh fashions almost imperceptible structures with string, wire, and Plexiglas. While McMahon emphasizes materiality, solidity, and containment, Oh focuses on transparency, lightness, and expansiveness. Despite their contrasts, the two sculptors’ work is complementary. Both reshape space by exploring tension, balance, and force. They challenge our perceptions of gravity and perspective by creating forms that expand in the galleries “In Sculpting with Air we’re bringing two boundary-pushing
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