Things that are visible but just beyond reach inevitably become more desirable and mysterious. Michael Singer’s recent installation depended on a dynamic between inside and outside in which actual access to the interior of the work was forbidden, though small apertures framed various views of the space it enclosed.

Raised on a low platform, and constructed of heavy wood planks, Ritual Series 1990, 1988–1990, initially suggested a forbidding fortress. Further exploration, however, disclosed open doorways in three sides and a narrow horizontal slot in the front of the sculpture that permitted

Things that are visible but just beyond reach inevitably become more desirable and mysterious. Michael Singer’s recent installation depended on a dynamic between inside and outside in which actual access to the interior of the work was forbidden, though small apertures framed various views of the space it enclosed.

Raised on a low platform, and constructed of heavy wood planks, Ritual Series 1990, 1988–1990, initially suggested a forbidding fortress. Further exploration, however, disclosed open doorways in three sides and a narrow horizontal slot in the front of the sculpture that permitted