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Sculpture
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In the late 1980's, I started
building flat, coiled shapes with rectangular openings near the top. At
first my interests were just in the challenge of making a flat, angular form
with coils and in creating a vertical wall suggesting an architectural or
environmental scale with a passage through to the opposite side. As the
forms developed, I realized I was also incorporating marks and relief
details relating to my experience of the Midwestern, rural landscape and my
study of Ancient and Medieval architecture. The frontal, roughly symmetrical
shapes evoke a stillness and formality associated with temple and cathedral
facades while at the same time suggesting connotations of objects such as bells
or steles.
The forms are hollow, built up with coils of clay, and fired to stoneware temperatures. The surfaces are either stained or glazed and sandblasted.
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I also make small, coiled earthenware sculptures with
applied terra sigillata. These forms are inspired by the shapes, colors,
surfaces, and sometimes enigmatic characters of tools and objects I have been
collecting from thrift and antique stores.
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More recently I have been making small sculptures in earthenware and stoneware, some inspired by brick fragments from an old brick factory near where I grew up and others related to the earlier hut and marker sculptures.
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140 1/2 N.
Watertown St., P.O. Box 454, Johnson Creek, WI 53038 920-699-2529 |