Despite an overly theatrical installation with darkened walls, professional pool lighting and plinths and pedestals of varying heights, the collective force of Tip Toland’s recent sculptures outweighs any stagy gimmicks of presentation or display. Perhaps in an attempt to make them seem unusually serious, Toland and the staff at Traver Gallery (www.travergallery.com) in Seattle, Washington, concocted a spectacle of old age, regret, loss, escape, and, let it be said, death, into a deeply satisfying aesthetic experience. Read More