Hew Locke's sculptures

after collecting commissions from the Met, Tate Modern, British Museum and more, Locke's solo exhibition, Passages, knocked on my doorstep at the Yale Center for British Art. the Guyanese-British "postcolonial baroque" artist reflects on the aftermath of great britain's 170-year long colonial rule over guyana as it pertains to power, transience, economy, and identity-building through symbols. his sculptures weave together "non-traditional" materials – cardboard, strings of beads, mass-produc...