Carol Boves new mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim inspired jealousy from curators and museum directors, masterfully balancing the popularity of her recent work against her more conceptual early work. -- Marion Maneker * Puck * Sure to become this years coffee table must-have. -- Monica Khemsurov * Sight Unseen * Its wondrous that Bove has taken material used in the construction of buildings, firearms, and bridges and made it feel like a piece of fabric nonchalantly deposited and forgotten. -- Seph Rodney * Hyperallergic * [ If] theres a narrative embedded in Boves bent-steel sculptures between the rusty castoffs of yesteryears infrastructure and todays high-gloss artificial perfection, its her great accomplishment of having made the stakes of that story simultaneously clear, yet wholly unresolved. -- Gordon Hughes * Artforum * Using not just steel but a wide array of materials, including driftwood, peacock feathers, and stone, Bove has long put perception at the heart of her artistic practice: What do we notice, and what do we overlook? -- Grace Edquist * Vogue * [ Carol Bove] extracts something new from steel, dispelling its aura of brawn. Her signature form is a rumpled ribbon of metal painted to look as soft as suede. -- Deborah Solomon * The New York Times *
