"La Salvamara" (the MS 13 Project), took Mastrangelo to Los Angeles where he created a series of sculptures derived from the infamous gang's tattoos.

Another ambitious architectural undertaking is Nicholas Kripal's suite of four cast-concrete sculptures derived from the floor plans of four Italian cathedrals: those in Pisa, Orvieto, St. Mark's in Venice and San Zeno Maggiore in Verona.

Also a suite of abstract sculptures derived from automobile chassis: Vaseline and plastic with cement and steel, pink and gray, rough and smooth, hard and soft - the materials sustaining a narrative of formal eloquence.

Mr. Acres's first solo show in New York (he has shown in Los Angeles a couple of times) includes sculptures derived from Revelations.

Loosely painted in dry blacks and grays, the large stoneware sculptures of women, based on traditional Tang figures, are voluptuously rounded and graceful; the sculptures of women in elaborate dresses, derived from paintings by Velázquez and Goya, look stiff and curiously anxious (Johnson).

But the latest are better: twin steel towers framed in plastic, a suite of abstract sculptures derived from automobile chassis.