THE CAROUSEL

David Stoltz’s Carousel gathers the full scope of his lifelong exploration of form, character, and material. It encompasses figures both on and off the carousel, envisioned in materials as diverse as wood, bronze, stainless steel, and marble. With work held in collections such as Storm King and major museums worldwide, Stoltz has spent a career shaping an abstract vocabulary that moves between abstraction and the pictorial. In The Carousel, this language expands into a single orbit where structure and freedom, weight and lightness, form and color circle one another in continuous exchange. The work functions as both sculpture and allegory, an invitation to enter its rhythm, to move, to pause, and to rediscover balance with each turn. Long recognized for his ability to move between tradition and bold experimentation, Stoltz arrives here at a work that feels inevitable, the piece toward which everything has been pointing. The Carousel is not only a major achievement, but a landmark moment in the arc of an artist whose vision has never stopped evolving.