Spare Sculptures

A museum presents a survey of the enigmatic work of Martin Puryear

- BY LANCE ESPLUND

‘Aso Oke” (2019)—a bronze-mesh dome roughly 7 feet tall by 9 feet wide—greets viewers outside the entrance to “Martin Puryear: Nexus,” a non-chronological survey of more than 50 sculptures and works on paper at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Overse