Painted welded steel, 29.5 x 37 x 19, 2022. The title invites a figurative reading, and the composition supports one without fixing it. The cut plate at the top sits like a hat or banner above a round face, the ring and its inner bend. The slotted blade at right extends like an arm or … Continue reading The Sorcerer
Welded painted steel, 23.5 x 23.5 x 10, 2021. Hesiod measures the depth of Tartarus with a smith's tool: an anvil dropped from heaven would take nine days to reach the earth and nine more to reach the pit. A pit measured in anvils suits a sculpture built in steel. The toothed ring at the … Continue reading Shades of Tartarus
Welded steel, 9 x 27 x 11, 2019. Odalisque comes from the Turkish odalık, a woman of the room: a servant of the harem, who waited on the household. European painters from Ingres to Matisse made her a reclining nude. The sculpture keeps both figures. It lies long and low like the divans of those … Continue reading Odalisque
Welded steel, 9 x 23 x 11, 2019. The river god is one of the oldest reclining figures in sculpture: a male body laid along the ground, propped on an urn from which the river pours. Greek temple pediments put him in their corners, where the triangle narrows, and Roman sculptors gave him the Nile … Continue reading River God
Welded painted steel, 8.5 x 23 x 8, 2019. A slipstream is the current of water dragged along behind a moving hull, and a follower who enters it is drawn along with less effort than the leader. The title names the sculpture's relation to the ceramics of Ruth-Anne French, whose arrangements of square tubes and … Continue reading Slipstream
