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| Sculpture Group 1977 |
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| Swamp Ritual 1978 Mixed media 81" x 24" x 22" |
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| Rain Place- Detail |
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| Rain Place 1978 84" x 54" x 36" |
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Clyde Connell sculpture
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Clyde Connell- Bound People Series
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| Bound People series 1986 72" x 15" x 3" |
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| Clyde Conell and Bound People series 1986 72"x 15"x 3" each |
-Photos from Charlotte Moser's book, "Clyde Connell."
Clyde Connell- Non-persons
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| Non-person posts- Detail |
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| Non-person Posts 1977 Mixed Media collage including machine gears, chains, gear shifts, feathers and fibers 108" x 67" |
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| Non-person Woman 1977 Mixed Media Collage 80" x 20" |
-Photos from "Clyde Connell" by Charlotte Moser
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Birds +
Birds in squares plus one (or more) elements.
I've been thinking about shapes and what they might be beyond a graphic element in the bird drawings. Is a curved shape a solid like a planet, or a membrane filled with air like the surface of a balloon? Is a dark triangle the absence of light--a shadow, a solid wall, or an empty space, a void? What is the relationship of a bird in a square to a shape, beyond line, pattern and texture?
What happens when a foreign element-- an object, event, relationship, or even a thought or a change in a way of thinking-- inserts itself into the neat little squares we set up as our lives? What is our perception of and relationship to an uninvited, unknown, and unexplored presence? Aren't we at least a little bit curious? Just a few of the questions that have been on my mind lately....
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| Contour drawings after pictures of birds in "Birds of the World as Painted by Nineteenth Century Artists" by Hiroshi Aramata |
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