Richard Serra’s “Bent Pipe Roll,” from 1968, is a free-standing lead pipe that lies along the floor, angles upward through a cylindrical lead roll, then leans against the wall. It rests serenely, gracefully, alone in a gallery at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield.

Nearby, Kate Gilmore’s new, site-specific installation, “A Roll in the Way,” consists of more than 500 painted logs stacked upright on a raised white platform. In her accompanying video, which documents the work’s evolution, Ms. Gilmore lifts one log at a time and dips it into a trough of red, black or white paint. She then hoists the log onto the platform, which she had hand-stenciled with the word “way” in repeating rows that are eventually concealed by logs. Read More