"DELTA" 2022,
"Night Pieces" 2022
Hammer formed and Fabricated Sheet Copper, Brass and Other Metals, 27.5 inches wide by 39.5 inches long.
"Prairie Fire" 2020, Hammer Formed Copper, Brass and Patina, 27.5" by 27"
"Green Web" 2019, Hammer Formed Copper and Brass, 24" Long
"Captured Impulses", 2017
"Crested Box" 2012
Copper, Brass, Patina 24.5 inches high
"Ruins of Babylon" 2011
Hammer formed sheet copper and brass
"Forgotten Passage" 2010
"Hunters Moon", 2008,
"Hunters Moon" 2008
"Shared Rhythms"
Commissioned through Iowa's Art in State Buildings program for the University of Iowa's Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Completed in 1984 and measures 6.5' wide by 4'.
Hammer Formed Sheet Metal Sculptures
The past, present and future are connected in the rich tapestries of my embossed, metal wall sculptures. A fabricated checkerboard grid of linked copper and brass plates provides the structural support and is the basis of my visual system. Like a large tablet of hieroglyphics, my sculpture explores the tension between the tactile and the visual. Each sculpture becomes a striking focal point that will capture everyone’s attention.
From the past, I employ hammer-forming techniques that were already well established in ancient times. Each individual sheet metal plate is embossed with a different emblematic relief. From practice and improvisation my visual language communicates with shapes, forms, textures and patterns. I weave these elements into a layered composition of intertwining visual rhythms that ripple across the sculpture’s surface. Each sculpture compliments and enhances its architectural setting with a strong presence.
From a distance, it's the overall composition and shape of the sculpture that draws the viewer’s attention. The fragmented surface responds like a kaleidoscope of shapes and shadows as the light and viewing angle change. This is just the first level of the experience. As one moves closer, the embossed detail of each section becomes clearer, revealing more embedded content. Unrelated talismanic images are often juxtaposed so that the viewer must now focus on each individual icon. Each symbol will conjure interpretations, associations and unique memories to everyone who interacts with it. On every viewing, new facets are revealed so that every encounter becomes a new and different experience.
I let contemporary images and events influence me as I chronicle and commemorate today’s visual environment to make each new sculpture unique. Stylized to blend with the quality of the sculpture, these new artifacts anchor my sculptures to the present.
Each sculpture has a timeless quality. As time goes by, the harmony of the embossed elements will continue to jog the memories and to engage the emotions of new viewers. Though rooted in the primitive pictorial language of the past, my sculptures will communicate with you in the future.
"Rhythm Grid"
Wall Sculpture
Fabricated Copper Sheet
A Working Drawing
This is one of the drawings for the Copper Wall Sculpture from 1979.
Wall Sculpture Installation
"Sideshow" 1981
"Sideshow" 1981
Copper, Nickle Silver and Brass, 64" long
"Copper Bottle"
Sheet Copper Forming and Fabricating
"Copper Bottle"
"Chevron 2" 1986
Cast Bronze, 12" X 12'
"Playhouse" 1986
Cast Bronze
"Unicorn"
"Teutonic"
"#8" Cast Iron
Mold Making
"Strata 2: The Inside is Out" 2005
"Meanderings"
Lamp
"Diamondback"
David,
ReplyDeleteI am thrilled that you shared this incredible body of work. It's fascinating to see how your work has evolved. I'm still looking at all the details after first reading the post on Orchid an hour ago.
You are a unique, talented, fabulous Artist, in the highest sense. Again, I'm so pleased to have seen your work all together in this blog.
What a shame that the first raised bowl was lost in the flood. Perhaps it will be unearthed someday by Archeologists!
Thank you for this wonderful blog!
Thank you Virginia, I appreciate your interest. I checked your web site and enjoyed your work. The bowl was not actually washed away by flood waters. Rather access to the flooded building was denied by officials until clean-up of contaminated material was completed. So it is probably in the landfill. Perhaps archeologists will dig that up someday.
DeleteAmazing & inspirational work!
ReplyDeleteYour work is amazing.. I want to buy for my home front wall elevation.. Please give rate.
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