For pure surprise, though, it was hard to equal the work of Karlis Rekevics, a New Yorker whose sculpture I have followed for some time...

Rekevics’ enormous architectural construction, in plaster, began discretely enough, but soon started moving into the surrounding woods. It was, like all of this gifted young artist’s work, about time and urban experience, based on charcoal drawings done from memories of things glimpsed on the long drive from Brooklyn to Emma Lake. But among close-packed evergreens, in shifting light, the plaster beams and stacked slabs lost the urban resonance they had in, for example, Rekevics’ 2002 exhibition at PS1, with gritty Queens out the window. In the Northern woods, the piece became a temple, ”Adam’s hut in Paradise.” Startled by these associations, Rekevics constructed a lamppost and added a wash of cold bluish light to subvert the pastoral associations, which made the piece more mysterious.