sculpture class. He was survived by his wife, Cathleen Malpass, and four children. Exhibitions Malpass' first exhibition was in 1977, a solo show at The Betty Parsons Gallery in Manhattan. One of his works was among several pieces pictured on the cover of the March 1979 issue of ARTnews magazine that featured Betty Parsons. Several of his spheres were included in the 1997 Pete Hamill book, "Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection." His work has been extensively exhibited. Particularly notable was the Michael Malpass Retrospective ant Monmouth University's Pollak Gallery in 2016. In addition to a large body of installations and commissions, his work can be found in museums and public and private collections around the world. Cathleen Malpass represents the work of her late husband through the Cathleen Malpass Gallery, that she constructed in his former studio space in Brick Township, NJ Sculpture Michael Malpass produced hundreds of sculptures that both challenged and adhered to classical aesthetic standards. Malpass focused much of his effort on creating spherical shapes, primarily using found metal objects. He would often say, “The sphere is the most perfect form. The sphere is whole. The form is simple, yet the surface is complicated. The structure is animated, yet peaceful.” He worked with other forms as well, including one departure that morphed into an important and comprehensive body of work he dubbed "chicken men." The chicken men were reviewed in ARTnews in May 1984, and were often exhibited along with the spheres. Believing as he did in the process of creating, Malpass also left a body of sculptural works that cannot be categorized as spheres nor chicken men, yet were created with the same exquisite technique and emotional content that Malpass employed in creating all of his artwork. References External links michaelmalpass.com 1946 births 1991 deaths 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists American male sculptors