When Richard Deacon began his career, he was one of many young artists using emerging media such as installation and performance to upend traditional sculptural forms. Over the course of decades, he developed the tension between stasis and dynamism in his sculptural works. The unstained wood of these three sculptures suggests a material left in its natural state, making their torquing movement a literal unexpected twist. Such uncanny disjunctions are common in Deacon’s work. The artist molds materials such as leather, iron, and clay into shapes that seem at odds with their physical properties.