Sculpture takes a great deal of time to create. How do you think through a sculpture? Not just the mechanical/technical process, but the important aesthetic work of meaning. What do you want it to say, and how do you shape a physical object to have emotional resonance for others? Drawing sharpens both your eye and […]
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Elements of art: Thoughts about Lines
Just there on the office floor are 3 good sized boxes of comics. They are there because a friend of my nephew’s passed away and willed him his collection. They are Golden Age comics. That is from the 40’s, 50’s and early 60’s. There are several holy grails of comic art in there. In particular, […]
Portland’s top art event – Art in the Pearl 2018
The Art in the Pearl was a success for the 15th year of demonstrating artists from the Pacific Northwest Sculptors!
Frogwood Collaborations: Sculptors share techniques and perspectives
6 days and 6 nights filled with making art with 38 other artists… what could be better? We usually were at work by 7:30 am and continued sometimes to 11:30 and later. It was amazing to see people simply drop their egos within a couple of days and simply play with one another, creating art. […]
Sculptors Near Me – How Collaboration makes us all better sculptors
Perhaps the most valuable feature of a group as diverse as ours is that we’re such a diverse group. Every meeting I’ve attended has resulted in some insight, recommendation, introduction, new product idea, new connection that I had not expected from someone I had not known before. Networks like ours are rich with opportunities like […]
Questions on Art, Commerce, and Eternity
I didn’t expect much of this condo estate sale. A friend wanted some advice about sculpture included in the estate. Expecting some Hummel figurines, I was astounded to see three beautiful stone carvings. Not just beautiful, old. Old as in ANCIENT. Two Buddhas and a devotional figure from Gandhara. 1500 to 1700 years old. Gandhara […]
Giacometti – Charioteers Rolling in the Money
A hundred and one million dollars is a lot of money but that’s what hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen paid in 2015 for Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture, The Chariot. Giacometti was a multifaceted artist who achieved his greatest recognition for his freakishly elongated spider-like human figures. A prominent existentialist philosopher explained Giacometti’s figures as depicting […]
Common Sculpture Tools – Orange Plastic Bowl
Pacific Northwest Sculptors member Andy Kennedy’s thoughts on unique materials and tools in installation art.