The Bridgehampton Museum presents A Line, A Shape, A Tool, a group exhibition featuring the work of Will Corwin, Pooneh Maghazehe, Russell Maltz, and Sun You. Previously presented by Geary in Salisbury, Connecticut, the exhibition is now on view at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Tractor Barn, bringing together four artists whose work explores the possibilities of contemporary sculpture.

The exhibition considers sculpture across a broad spectrum—from the conceptual and diagrammatic to the abstract and almost figurative. The works engage with geometry, material, form, utility, and the human impulse to create, offering distinct approaches to the relationship between objects and ideas.

The exhibition’s title is drawn from a short story by writer Will Heinrich, which imagines an evolutionary process in which a humanoid creature discovers tools, memory, beauty, and utility, eventually arriving at the creation of art. This idea provides a point of departure for considering the ways artists transform materials into objects that exist somewhere between function, form, and meaning.

The artists’ works are presented in dialogue with one another: Russell Maltz’s geometric wall and floor-based installations meet the visceral composite objects of Pooneh Maghazehe; Sun You’s colorful assemblages bring together elements that are playful yet subtly charged; and Will Corwin’s cast-iron objects draw on the symbolic and brooding qualities of Art Brut.

A Line, A Shape, A Tool offers visitors an opportunity to experience four distinct approaches to sculpture while considering the common ground between abstraction, representation, material, and the human act of making.

Artist Bios

Sun You

Sun You has exhibited her work in galleries and museums internationally. Selected exhibition venues include Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, Geary, New York, The Pit, Los Angeles, Queens Museum, New York, The Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Scotty Enterprise, Berlin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, and The Suburban, Chicago.

You was an artist in residence at Hunter College, Ace Hotel, Marble House Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Triangle Arts Association, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral and the Sharpe and Walentas Studio Program. She is one of three recipients of the Korean Art Foundation, AHL Contemporary Visual Art Award 2022.

You’s work has been featured in many publications including Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, Korea Times, Modern Painters and Widewalls.

​You heads President Clinton Projects, a curatorial project and co-runs an artist collective gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid  New York.  Sun You received an MFA in painting at Wayne State University in Detroit MI

Russell Maltz

Russell Maltz has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally since 1976, including in Australia, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Sweden, Israel, Denmark, Mexico, Switzerland, Japan and New Zealand. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, Tema Celeste, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, Miami Rail, Kunst Forum International, Tussle, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, Bomb and White Hot Magazine. Maltz’s works are in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Kunstraum-Alexander Burkle-PEAC Freiburg, Germany, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, Germany, Stiftung fur Konkreter Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia and The Bridgehampton Museum. A survey exhibition exploring 40 years of Maltz’s work was mounted by the Stadtgalerie, Saarbrucken, and Galerie Michael Sturm in Stuttgart, Germany. The exhibition was accompanied by a monogram book covering the first 40 years of his work from 1976 through 2017 and published by The Stadtgalerie Saarbrucken.  Maltz received his MFA from Long Island University, C.W. Post College in 1979.

Pooneh Maghazehe

Notable solo presentations of Pooneh Maghazehe include “Double Barrel” at Martos After Dark, “Half-Time” at KinoSaito Art Center in Verplank, NY and “2for1” at Brennan & Griffin Gallery in New York, NY. Select group exhibitions include “Global Contemporary : Art Worlds After 1989” at ZKM Center for Art and Media, “Transnational Aesthetics” 798 Biennal at BTAP Gallery, Etiquette for Lucid Dreaming” Gateway II at Newark Penn Station and “Iran Inside Out” at DePaul University Museum. Her work has been featured in Artforum, BmoreArt, Contemporary Practices, Flaunt Magazine, Art Asia Pacific Magazine and Magazine 1. Pooneh received an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2011.

Will Corwin

Will Corwin is a sculptor and writer based in New York. Will has exhibited his work at LaMama Galleria, Zurcher Gallery, Geary Contemporary and The George and Jorgen Gallery in London.  Residencies include: the State Department Artist Residency at the Taipei Artist’s Village (2007), The Clocktower Gallery (2010), The Hamburg City Guest Artist Residency (2010), Art Omi (2014), Lower Manhattan Workspace Residency on Governors Island (2014),Atelier Mondiale in Basel (2023), and a Mahler/LeWitt residency in 2026.  Museum shows include Roots/Anchors in at The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, a four person show featuring the work of Shervone Neckles, Katie Holten, and Xaviera Simmons, with exhibition catalog essay by Lucy Lippard.

In 2019 he curated Postwar Women at The Art Students League, an exhibition of forty-four of the institution’s alumnae active between 1945 and 1965, featuring artists such as Lee Krasner, Lenita Manrey, Mavis Pusey, Perle Fine, Elizabeth Catlett, and Dorothy Dehner. He has also curated a series of exhibitions centering on the midcentury French painters Marguerite Louppe and Maurice Brianchon, at Lafayette College, Albright College, and Seton Hall University, and most recently at Rosenberg & Co. He is the author of the book &Model, published by Leeds Metropolitan University. He was recently included in three of Phong Bui’s exhibitions, Singing in Unison, he has been a writer for the Brooklyn Rail for 16 years, and has also written for Frieze, Art & Antiques, Art Papers, and Mutt. Will studied architecture at Princeton University.

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