Cragg's

In Mr. Cragg's case, the relation between surface and depth is equally important.

Beauty That's No Illusion Willard Spiegelman 2011

The eight-foot bronze "It Is, It Isn't" Mr. Cragg's titles are often suggestive or just mysterious, with several of those protruding, quasihuman "faces," tempts the viewer, as do most of these, to caress the material.

Beauty That's No Illusion Willard Spiegelman 2011

Mr. Cragg's squishy but solid masses some of which weigh several tons play a similar trick.

An Explosion of Visual Arts Paul Levy 2011

These are joined, in a smaller gallery, by Cragg's hypnotizing paper works: sketches, drawings, watercolors, doodles that achieve a charming sublimity.

Beauty That's No Illusion Willard Spiegelman 2011

Cross the road for an enormous show of Liverpool-born Tony Cragg's hefty colored sculptures, some of which are dotted about the glorious permanent architectural "landform" earthwork by Charles Jencks in front of the building.

An Explosion of Visual Arts Paul Levy 2011

Mr. Cragg's work appears to be totally abstract, but then you are suddenly reminded of Italian post-Futurist sculpture—for example, of Renato Bertelli's "Continuous Profile of Mussolini" 1933, in which Il Duce's profile is rotated 360 degrees, so that it seems to be a machine-part, rather than a portrait head.

An Explosion of Visual Arts Paul Levy 2011

Cragg's experience on Navy submarines also helped him provide recommendations for keeping the miners healthy.

Steve Ressler: From Outer Space to Underground: NASA's Life-Saving Role in Chilean Miner Rescue Steve Ressler 2010

Cragg's experience on Navy submarines also helped him provide recommendations for keeping the miners healthy.

Steve Ressler: From Outer Space to Underground: NASA's Life-Saving Role in Chilean Miner Rescue Steve Ressler 2010

In "Tony Cragg: Seeing Things," the British sculptor's first major U.S. show in almost two decades, roughly 30 sculptures chronicle Mr. Cragg's expansion from works of found objects to art using conventional materials in unconventional ways, like his bronze sculpture "Outspan," pictured here.

Don't Miss: Sept. 10-16 2011

And it forces me to say that, for all its strengths, Cragg's art just does not have what Creed's has: it does not speak in the world in the same unforced, open way.

Martin Creed's stairway to heaven 2011