Soldered brass, 15 x 8 x 9, 2008. The title adapts a sentence from Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter” (1908). He wants an art of balance and serenity, free of troubling subject matter, a calming influence on the mind of every mental worker, the businessman and the man of letters alike: “something like a good … Continue reading For the Tired Brainworker
Soldered brass, 9 x 10 x 10, 2008. In "Helm of the Elvish King", the artist Ryan McCourt presents a piece that, while not wearable, evokes a strong sense of regality and mythology. The brass material gives the sculpture a timeless, ancient quality, reminiscent of a long-lost era of kings and warriors. The bird-like beak and … Continue reading Helm of the Elvish King
Welded steel, 70 x 20 x 23, 2007. A headdress normally announces rank to onlookers. A dreamer’s would give the dream a place to enter and a place to stay, and this one has the features for both. It’s a tall hollow shell, far larger than the head beneath it. A ring with an oval … Continue reading Dreamer
Welded steel, 74 x 18 x 18, 2007. Minerva is patron of wisdom and of the crafts, the goddess of people who work with their heads and hands. The portrait bust is the form a culture uses to honor someone it wants remembered: head and shoulders, raised on a column so that the viewer looks up. … Continue reading Minerva
Painted welded steel, 63 x 19 x 16, 2007. Ganesha is the god invoked first. An Indian classical dance or music recital customarily opens with a salutation to him, and so does the start of a book, a building or a journey. The remover of obstacles is the patron of beginnings, and an art has as … Continue reading Ganesha, Patron of the Arts
