Bryce

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Comment by Resident Curator on November 20, 2012 at 8:10am

Curator’s Comment:  

 

There’s an incredible range in your portfolio, from directly pictorial/representational imagery to sleek, and highly stylized economic forms.  I prefer the latter category, in general, when the highly refined craft is married to the form. The piece titled Bryce/Canine is superb in its simple curved shape.  It’s hard to fathom it came from such humble ‘scrap ‘origins.   The organic striations in the surface offer the feel of a carved stone or bone - an ancient relic or fossil, as a canine tooth would suggest.  Labyrinth is also very appealing in its smoothly reduced curvilinear form.  Certainly more complex in structure and composition, it nonetheless hides the artist’s hand in what seems like an effortless and naturally occurring sculptural object.  The ornate jewelry boxes are the other end of this spectrum. But again, the highly skilled fabrication is clearly in the service of form.  While nothing was extraneous in the later pieces, this works seems to be all about ornamental excess.  The footed box and central medallion decoration remind me of Pennsylvania-Dutch trunks, but the open fretwork borrows from various cultural traditions.  I find it particularly amusing that the design was computer assisted, as these works also speak to time honored hand craft.