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John AdduciFrom Chicago, Illinois
Title: My Pi Medium: Aluminum $ 40,000.00 |
About the Artist
John Adduci is a lifelong Chicago artist with public sculpture as his professional forte for over thirty years. His sculptures display bold gestures, a playful sensibility, and clever interpretations of arches, obelisks, and in our case, the pi symbol. An internationally recognized artist and craftsman, Adduci’s skills extend to custom fabrication, conservation, and restoration. Clients include private collectors, government agencies, public sculpture gardens and collections, city and state organizations, and educational institutions including the Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago Children’s Museum, and Universities of Illinois at Chicago and Urbana-Champaign. Sculpture Statement It has always been my philosophy that sculpture needs to both compliment and contrast its surroundings. Just like a streetlight, bench, or even a building, public art is an essential part of the environment. As part of its settings, My Pi considers the viewer’s experience at every angle. You’ll notice this as you view the slant of the pi’s upper triangle and the placement of the symbol’s “legs”. Even the sculpture’s finish is important. You may have noticed that My Pi has an abstract, “swirly” finish to its metal. This is intended to match the lighthearted essence of the sculpture while also considering the sun’s rays – illuminating the artwork’s exterior. My Pi is an especially popular sculpture with viewers. It’s always a pleasure to see new visitors examine the sculpture carefully then, in a “eureka” moment, realize they’re looking at a pi symbol. The delight in their discovery is one of the best parts of being a public artist. Of course, the surprise of finding a classic mathematical symbol within a seemingly abstract sculpture adds an element of the unexpected and I’m proud to create sculpture that keeps viewers guessing. It’s not every day that a mathematical symbol adopts physicality by taking bold “steps” with its metal “legs”. Pi is meant to engage and entertain through a surprise depiction of “math on the move”! Artist Statement Sculpture is an on-the-street experience with art. It excites intuition to explore and, with power and audacity, challenges our right to take up space. By proximity, outdoor sculpture confronts, creates dialogue, and educates. |
Andrew ArvanetesFrom Kankakee, Illinois
Title: When a Man's An Empty Kettle Medium: Painted Aluminum $ 12,900.00 |
Sculpture Statement
The sculpture's title is taken from a line in the Harold Arlen song from the film The Wizard of Oz. I have been fascinated with the film since childhood and this is the second sculpture, I have created that pays tribute to this experience. When a Man’s an Empty Kettle measures 90” high, 72” wide and 48” deep and weighs 200 lbs. It is fabricated of 10-gauge sheet aluminum and painted with a direct to metal acrylic primer and topcoat. Artist Statement My sculptures have always been object-oriented and narrative in nature. The interpretation of my work may not be the same as the intended narrative. More importantly, the viewer should be able to feel a connection based on their own individual experiences. I attempt to achieve this connection with my audience by utilizing universal visual details. The mechanical and architectural details utilized in my work have evolved into a personal language. These details and symbols combine with the overall form to create the visual aesthetic. Because of my combination of physical scale, personal references and visual details often results in a whimsical and absurd reality. |
John E. BannonFrom Chicago, Illinois
Title: Drop Medium: Painted Steel, Cast urethane $ 18,000.00 |
About the Artist
John E. Bannon is a multimedia artist working out of Sedgwick Studios in Chicago. His work can be seen in public and private collections across the country and abroad. He holds a BFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Sculpture Statement Drop is an award-winning sculpture utilizing height, reflection, and a familiar experience of watching drops of dew or water from a blade of nature. The sculpture is 12 feet tall giving the viewer a unique perspective of the clear drop created from cast urethane. Artist Statement The subject matter of my work often consists of common shapes, objects, or scenes drawn from nature and presented in a positive way. I incorporate the use of perspective, principles of Gestalt psychology, colored light, reflections, shadows, and illusions of depth to create an environment for an aesthetic experience. I want the viewer to stop and wonder about their own reaction and experience what is before them; to make a connection between the art and their own understanding and see something that may look familiar but see it in a new way. When this happens, I believe new paths are opened in the viewer's mind, creating a new way of thinking and the capacity to see things in a fresh way. Allowing for inspiration applicable to their own life experience. |
Mark ChatterleyFrom Williamston, Michigan
Title: Blue Dogs Medium: Clay Large Dogs $ 8,000.00 Small Dog $ 6,000.00 |
About the Artist
Mark Chatterley, of Williamston Michigan has an MFA from Michigan State University and is a nationally and internationally recognized artist. His figurative work is distinguished by his use of clay as an outdoor sculpture medium. His high-fire technique creates a hard metal-like surface that can withstand harsh outdoor weather conditions. The artist built a kiln big enough to handle his larger-than-life figurative works. In addition to the kiln capacity, he developed his own glaze he calls crater glaze that can withstand the high-fire process. His sculptures can be found in museums, outdoor exhibits, and galleries throughout the country and in permanent collections both nationally and internationally. Sculpture Statement Several years ago, I had a studio dog named Snoopy, I used her as a model. After she passed away, the sculptural dogs started getting larger. They are a stylized version of what my dog looked like. The large dogs are the maximum size my kiln can hold. They are made from high- fired clay with a crater glaze. Each one was hand built; no molds were used. |
Carrie FischerFrom Crystal Lake Illinois
Title: King of Hearts Material: Concrete & Steel $25,000 |
About the Artist
Carrie became fascinated with sculpting through ceramics at an early age. Her passion for building objects flourished after she and her husband, Tom, started an architectural concrete business called Fishstone Studio in 2006. Over the past 15 years Carrie found making functional art fulfilling and began her study of sculpting with concrete as a medium. Through concrete and her action-oriented mentality, she found a calling to make sculptures that depicted the social issues of the world. She is now focused full-time on sculpting and developing new techniques to use high performance concrete in public art. Sculpture Statement The inspiration for this large sculpture came to me during the Black Lives Matters movement. I felt a personal calling to research and design a piece that personifies the beauty of black American men and women. The original concept began with a black female nude figure in a contemporary form. I created both a male and a female form with a focus on the simple heart shape made by our arms coming together in a casual way when our hands are clasped together in front. This sculpture was designed without movement or energy to represent a quiet and calm shape. The base of the sculpture is shaped like the Adinkra (African) symbol representing peacemaking. |
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About the Artist
Robert Garcia, of Whitehouse Ohio earned his MFA from Ohio State University. Mr. Garcia retired after 40 years of teaching art in the Toledo Public School System. Throughout his teaching career his paintings, murals, ceramic work, and sculptures have been exhibited in local and national exhibits including over 35 locations in the tri-state area through the Midwest Sculpture Initiative. His artwork has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards and recognitions and can be found in the permanent collection of the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Botanical Gardens, Schedel Gardens, The University of Toledo, three commissions for the Toledo Zoo and many other landmark locations in the local area and region as well as Spain. Sculpture Statement The space between the two parts of the sculpture represents a passage through a life experience. As knowledge grows from experience, certain questions arise. Some questions are answered while others are unanswered. The knowledge gathered from our questions and answers is central to who we are. The inspiration for my sculpture comes from my desire to convey a feeling for human contemplation of the powerful forces of nature. To create an abstract interactive sculpture that may arouse curiosity, surprise, and encourage various interpretations by each viewer. The process for creating this sculpture started with a mild steel plate rolled to approximately 6 feet diameter, shapes and piercings hand cut with a plasma cutting torch. Anchoring feet were welded on and the piece was primed, and brush painted with Nova Color acrylic, mural paint, and sealer. Viewers are encouraged to enter the space between the two parts and consider the idea of it being a passage through a life experience. Artist Statement Conveying an artistic idea may lead me to sculpture or to painting. It may often be a combination of the two. My idea may be expressed in either abstract or representational imagery. The patina or treatment of the surface of a sculpture is important and the purpose for me is to enhance the form to engage the viewer as much as possible to relate to it in positive and meaningful ways. |
James
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About the Artist
James Havens attended high school in India, while his father worked on the Bhakra Dam project. For him, Woodstock School in the Himalayas was a formative influence and a source of strong friendships. After returning to Warsaw, Illinois, a Mississippi River town where the Havens family has had a farm since 1916, Jim served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1958-1962, with a 2-year stint in the Marine Corps Honor Guard in Washington, D.C., where he met Karen Sandberg. They married in 1965 and had 2 children, Amy and Beau. Havens had a 30-year career with Toledo Ironworkers Local 55; on retirement, he threw himself into making steel sculptures. In 2000 Owens Community College recruited him to introduce a new course, Artistic Welding; it flourished with great popularity from 2000-2015, and former students such as Pamela Reithmeier, Todd Kime, and Beth Scheffert are now competing with their teacher in showing and selling their work. Toledo Area Sculptors Guild meets at the Havens Studio and Rose Foundry in Gibsonburg, Ohio, site of his annual Sculpture in the Village Show since 2005. Havens works primarily in steel but has cast several life-sized bronze figures, including a Mahatma Gandhi. His greatest project culminated in Gibsonburg on September 11, 2016, with the dedication of the Public Safety Service Memorial, which Havens designed. Featuring a 36-ft. long piece of the antenna from the North Tower leaning on a stainless-steel scaled replica of the new World Trade Center, the Memorial is a pentagon-shaped enclosure. On its walls black granite plaques tell the story of 9/11/2001. Sculpture Statement This sculpture pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and calls attention to the historic salt march he led in 1930 when Gandhi began to peacefully rid India of British control. Marching 241 miles to the Arabian Sea salt marshes, he and his followers collected salt, defying laws that forced Indians to obtain their necessary but highly taxed salt only from the British monopoly. The beginning of many non-violent protests that eventually led to Indian Independence and later inspired Martin Luther King. |
Ray KatzFrom Pontiac, Michigan
Title: Around the Gate Medium: Steel $ 18,000.00 |
About the Artist
Ray Katz holds an M.F.A. from Wayne State University (Sculpture), a Bachelor of Science in fine arts from Eastern Michigan University (drawing, ceramics, sculpture) and attended the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts (drawing, painting) He retired from teaching after 42 years as a professor of art at Auburn Hills, campus of Oakland Community College. The artist has maintained a prolific art career from his Pontiac studio since the mid-70’s. His work has been exhibited throughout the country as well as Japan and France and can be found in private, corporate, and institutional collections. He was recently featured in the documentary, Ray Katz, American Sculptor on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/422524347 Artist Statement My sculpture is abstract, geometric, and organic shapes. I use the abstract manipulation of form in space to create visual balance, using rhythm, action, and movement to combine and create compositions that convey the implied energy found in my work. The sculptures allude to an evolutionary process that we all share in our human experience. I associate this evolutionary process with the evolution of life experiences that we all commonly share. These ideas and concepts are what separate my work from the historical and industrial influences from which I draw my connections. The active forms that are brought together represent the flux of life, and embrace transformative concepts such as evolution, metamorphosis and transcendence. |
Jack Howard-PotterFrom Long Island City,
New York Title: Going Green Medium: Steel $ 20,000.00 |
Sculpture Statement
Going Green was made as a response to the destruction of our world. Humans have a terrible track record of ravaging the environment. I wanted to make a figure that acted as a counter to that fact. Making a figure large enough to actually hug the globe stands as a metaphor for the responsibility, we have to care for our home and protect it and the people there. Artist Statement I work to capture movement in a medium that does not move. Using steel, which is an inherently rigid material, I work to convey a sense of fluid action in space. My work explores the wide range of movements of the human figure informed through my study of drawing human anatomy. My sculptures seek to convey the motion of the body in extremely stressful and beautiful positions; the moment that a dancer is at the peak of a jump, the weightless split second before a body succumbs to gravity. I am describing an ephemeral action in steel to convey this moment for eternity. I want the viewer to visualize the actions that led up to a given pose and the actions that will follow it. Using the brightly colored surfaces separates the figures from the landscape, making them stand out in much the same way people do when they wear clothes. The brilliant colors serve as protection for the steel from the corrosive outdoor environment as well as adding excitement to the steel to aid in the sense of movement. The work explores the range of possibilities and flexibility of the material as well as the subject matter. |
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