Westwood Gallery NYC
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Art Fairs
  • Research & Projects
  • Publications
  • News
  • Press
  • About
Cart
0 items £
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu

Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell

Past exhibition
1 Apr - 10 Jun 2023
  • Overview
  • Artworks
  • Installation Views
  • Press release
  • Press
  • Publications
Overview
Minimalist sculpture comprised of layers of limestone, and marble on a black table
Don Porcaro, That's How the Light Gets In 4 (2019)
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC was pleased to present Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell, a solo exhibition of sculpture and works on paper. This was Porcaro's first solo exhibition with the gallery and included twenty-seven artworks from the last decade, curated by James Cavello. On view are over twenty-two sculptures highlighting works from five series from the last decade: 'Talismans,' 'That's How the Light Gets In,' 'Everybody Knows,' 'Collective Engagement,' and 'Time Will Tell.' The exhibition was on view from April 1 - June 10, 2023.
Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Artworks
  • Larger layered sculpture, each layer is in neutrals and some patterns from the natural stones, the top piece is a small brass detail
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 4, 2021
  • Mulitlayered and colored sculpture with layers moving in and then back out in a elongated, hourglass shape
    Don Porcaro, Collective 2, 2022
  • Multilayer sculpture made of marble with a limestone square base, four base stones, and layers in blue, whites, red, and black
    Don Porcaro, Talisman 18, 2019
  • Multilayer and warmer colored sculpture with beige, blue, green, and orange slabs, with four white base stones
    Don Porcaro, Talisman 17, 2016
  • Multilayered sculpture with four beige base stones and colors of white, gray, pink, and blue with a long narrow brass neck and five marble spheres at the top
    Don Porcaro, Talisman 16, 2016
  • A multi-colored and layered sculpture in neaurals with different mediums and sizes on each layer, the shapes are rounded.
    Don Porcaro, That's How the Light Gets In 5, 2019
  • Marble, limestone, and brass sculpture in different layers in gray and neutral tones, supported by black curved legs
    Don Porcaro, Talisman 3, 2012
  • Multi layered and colored sculpture slimming down from the bottom with a rounded and pointed brass top piece
    Don Porcaro, Talisman 11, 2014
  • Multilayer, slanted sculpture of marble and limestone, in browns and white, and a brass semi-sphere top layer and flattened top
    Don Porcaro, That's How the Light Gets In 4, 2019
  • Marble, limestone, and brass sculpture in different layers, with the base pink and feet like, and a curved brass top
    Don Porcaro, Talisman 9, 2014
  • Obscularly shaped sculpture with large brown base pieces holding two pieces layered with orange, grey, and blue folding upward with center detailing
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 22, 2021
  • Split multilayer sculpture with black and brown base pieces, neutral layers, and a green and brass top
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 11, 2021
  • Triangular multilayer sculpture with black, marble, yellow, and green, with a thin brass layer and spotted, thick top
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 14, 2021
  • Rounded rectangular sculpture with outward facing pink base pieces and neutral colored layers, with center splitting detailing
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 16, 2021
  • Stacked sculpture with four rounded bases and beige, black, brown, green, and silver layers
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 17, 2021
  • Obscularly shaped sculpture, orange bases holding two yellow pieces layered with black, grey, blue, and brown folding upward
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 21, 2021
  • A short and wide layered sculpture with a larger mable piece at the bottom and then range of darker colors above
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 9, 2021
  • Rounded sculpture, four yellow base pieces and brown, orange, blue, and white layers
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 13, 2021
  • Multilayer sculpture with a black round base and rounded peddle like white layers, a long sleek black neck and orange and brass top layers
    Don Porcaro, Everybody Knows 7, 2021
  • Red paper with yellow, green and white doodles of bells, and lights and anthropomorphic forms
    Don Porcaro, Inventory 12, 2002
  • White paper with black, red, blue and yellow oil drawing of oval and bulbous shapes
    Don Porcaro, Inventory 16, 2017
  • Yellowed paper with 8 black, red, blue and yellow oil drawing of oval and bulbous shapes
    Don Porcaro, Inventory 20, 2017
  • Black paper with 9 oil drawings in yellow, pink, red, blue, and white of oval shapes stacked, swirling forms, and bulbous shapes
    Don Porcaro, Inventory 21, 2017
  • Black paper with 11 oil drawings in yellow, blue, white, red and yellow studying how circular shapes could stack and take form
    Don Porcaro, Inventory 22, 2017
  • Black paper with 11 oil drawings in yellow, blue, white, red and yellow studying how circular shapes could stack and take form
    Don Porcaro, Inventory 23, 2017
Installation Views
  • Installation view of Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell at Westwood Gallery NYC 2023
    Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell | Installation View
  • Installation view of Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell at Westwood Gallery NYC 2023
    Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell | Installation View
  • Installation view of Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell at Westwood Gallery NYC 2023
    Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell | Installation View
  • Installation view of Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell at Westwood Gallery NYC 2023
    Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell | Installation View
  • Installation view of Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell at Westwood Gallery NYC 2023
    Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell | Installation View
  • Installation view of Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell at Westwood Gallery NYC 2023
    Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell | Installation View
  • Installation view of Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell at Westwood Gallery NYC 2023
    Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell | Installation View
  • Installation view of Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell at Westwood Gallery NYC 2023
    Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell | Installation View
Press release

WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC was pleased to present Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell, a solo exhibition of sculpture and works on paper. This was Porcaro's first solo exhibition with the gallery and included twenty-seven artworks from the last decade, curated by James Cavello. The exhibition was on view from April 1 - June 10, 2023.


Don Porcaro is a sculptor who has lived and worked in New York City for over 40 years. After his first sculpture course at Farleigh Dickenson University, he drew an immediate relationship between his artmaking process and structural concepts. Soon, he moved to New York City and pursued graduate studies at Columbia University, and thereafter joined the faculty of Parsons School of Design, where he taught for over forty years.

 

For the past decade, Porcaro has been creating totemic vertical forms created from carved modules of limestone, marble, metal, and other diverse stones. Instead of using a reductive process, he uses an additive process as he cuts, builds, and assembles layers together, joining them into larger forms. Porcaro has always looked toward architecture, archeology, and nature as key sources of inspiration. At sacred Indigenous sites like Chaco Canyon and Serpent Mound, he observed the human imprint on nature through architecture, as well as the effect of time and the elements on those structures. In a similar way, the layering of his sculptures alludes to the accumulation of geological time as well as cultural history he experienced. In most of his unique works, Porcaro includes one or multiple layers of dark stone to symbolize transformative events that would lead to historical shifts in a civilization. Other influences derive from the innovative engineering achievements of the great Italian Renaissance artists/architects, including Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Filippo Brunelleschi, and from modernist and contemporary artists like Isamu Noguchi, Martin Puryear, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Sarah Sze, and Ronald Bladen.

​

On view are over twenty-two sculptures highlighting works from five series from the last decade: 'Talismans,' 'That's How the Light Gets In,' 'Everybody Knows,' 'Collective Engagement,' and 'Time Will Tell.' In one of his largest over seven-foot-high sculptures, Everybody Knows 4 (2021), Porcaro contrasts layers of undulating marble, limestone, and slate as he tapers the body of the columnar form to figurative proportions. In Talisman 3 (2016) and Talisman 17 (2016), unique rings of brass appear almost as accessories, like the elongated golden neck rings in the Kayan peoples or the tall golden crown reminiscent of the royal regalia of Cambodia and Thailand. Other sculptures such as That's How the Light Gets In #4 (2018) and Time Will Tell #2 (2023) recall forms like the lingam or Brunelleschi's Dome and push the forms of his works to twist and rise with asymmetry in a suggestion of both infinity and evolutionary cycles. In addition to his sculptures, five works on paper on exhibit from his ongoing 'Inventory' series emphasize the fluid and playful forms of his artworks.

 

"My newest works emphasize both the columnar and figurative aspects to create an amalgam that is both architectural and human, with a nod to Plato's Symposium and Brancusi's The Kiss."
- Don Porcaro

Press
  • Installation View | Don Porcaro: Time Will Tell at Westwood Gallery NYC, 2023.

    Don Porcaro

    Shasti O'Leary Soudant, Sculpture, 5 Jun 2023
  • Stacked stone sculpture with brass cap rests atop a thin steel pedestal

    Don Porcaro: Timeless Sculptures for our Time

    Jonathan Stevenson, Two Coats of Paint, 5 Apr 2023
Publications
  • Don Porcaro

    Don Porcaro

    Time Will Tell Westwood Gallery NYC, 2023
    Softcover 48 pages
    Publisher: Westwood Gallery NYC
    ISBN: 978-0-9655834-8-0
    Dimensions: 10.5 x 8 inches
    Read more

Related artist

  • Click to view more information about artist Don Porcaro

    Don Porcaro

Back to exhibitions
Privacy Policy
Accessibility Policy
Manage cookies
© 2025 Westwood Gallery NYC
Site by Artlogic
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Artnet, opens in a new tab.

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences