Abstract Sculpture: Bill Keating

Seven feet of aluminum, apparently caught halfway through changing its mind.

This abstract sculpture, Untitled, is by Bill Keating, from the United States, made about 1979. It is aluminum in a bright finish. American sculptors of the postwar decades took readily to industrial metals, drawn to their shine and their willingness to be cut and bent. A wide ribbon spirals up from a plain cylindrical post with a flanged foot. Above it, a second curl swings loose, and a tall folded sail tapers to a point. Everything reflects everything else. Eighty-four inches high and 27 wide.

Nobody will mistake it for a coat rack. Someone will still try.