Stan Dann "Dancing Shoes"
... Quite opposite in scale, Stan Dann's large carved wood reliefs of shoes have the impact of a less abstract Elizabeth Murray. these shoes are almost anthropomorthically expressive. With their bulging contours and flowing laces they look well worn, really "lived-in." Dann employs the conventions of caricature to exaggerate the individual qualities of a mans pair of leisure moccasins, with their loosley bulging tops, prominent stitching, and crepe soles, and a womans pair of red dress shoes with their pointy toes, ankle straps, and high heels. But his distrortions are more expressive than satiricle, and his sculptures finally succeed by virtue of their flowing formal contours rather than their cartoon qualities...