Beginning his career in the early 1970s, American artist Mel Kendrick quickly developed a practice that integrated elements of Minimalism in the tradition of Donald Judd and Richard Serra as well as architecture. Over the next five decades, he would craft an oeuvre noted for both its faithful rigor yet ever-expanding degree of expressiveness—the next chapter of which is now on view at David Nolan Gallery in New York. “ Mel Kendrick: Tilt ” is the artist’s ninth solo with the gallery and brings together new and recent work juxtaposed with a selection of older pieces. The result is a dynamic body of work, a glimpse into Kendrick’s overarching practice, that the gallery describes “as immediately familiar as it is startlingly novel.” Mel Kendrick, Walnut Shelf (2026). Courtesy of David Nolan Gallery. A hallmark of Kendrick’s practice is his singular economy of materials and techniques. Wood specifically holds a powerful place in his work.…