University of New Mexico Art Museum Center for the Arts (Main Campus)

Richard Deacon’s Dead Leg (2007) is a tour-de-force sculpture composed of bent and twisted oak timbers, bound together in groups of two and four with custom-fabricated stainless steel couplings. Spanning 28 x 9 feet, Dead Leg gracefully gyrates with a ribbon-like fluidity. The British artist, Richard Deacon (b. 1949, Bangor, Wales) has been an internationally recognized figure in contemporary art since the 1980s when his sculpture was included in four important group exhibitions held in London at the Tate Gallery, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), the Hayward, and Serpentine galleries.