Painted welded steel, 216 x 192 x 108, 2004. “Outlook” is the view from a window and also the weather forecast, and the sculpture gives both in one structure: a view under the lintel and a forecast above it. The form is a triumphal arch, a heavy lintel carried on two posts, eighteen feet high … Continue reading A Modern Outlook
Welded steel, 11 x 39 x 43, 2003. Atlas is the Titan who holds up the sky, and the sculpture keeps only the part of him that holds. It has no figure and no strain: what remains is a base, a thick slab on stout feet, made to receive something and give it a firm seat. … Continue reading Atlas
Painted welded steel, 120 x 108 x 90, 2003. Solus is Latin for alone, and the room the sculpture offers is a bath. At ten feet high, nine wide and seven and a half deep, it can be climbed into, or entered from below. A grab handle stands at the edge of an opening, and a … Continue reading Solus
Painted welded steel, 82 x 41 x 35, 2003. A bowl with a spoon laid across its rim, a tall carafe and a wrapped package stand on a cloth in front of a window frame. Behind the frame a large ring rises above everything else in the composition and reads as the sun coming up. … Continue reading Early Riser
Welded steel, 78 x 67 x 20, 2002. The subject. An allegory in the Enlightenment manner: a virtue triumphs over vices, with the parenthetical naming the defeated. What the title withholds is the personified Reason that tradition would have shown, a Minerva or a goddess of Reason with spear and book. In her place stands … Continue reading Reason’s Quiet Victory (over ignorance and dishonesty)
