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Sculpture Exhibition at the MCAC!
The exhibition, SCULPT, offers viewers a wide range of sculpture by eleven artists who live and work in Central Illinois. The exhibition continues through August 9, 2003.
The artists Ian Crawley, Mark Genrich, Brian Gustafson, Preston Jackson, Gary Justis, Edward McCullough, Melissa Pokorny, Toni Putnam, Paul Sacaridiz, Fisher Stolz, and Kevin Strandberg have chosen sculpture as their medium because of its physicality, its material presence. This presence gives shape and meaning to the ideas these artists pursue in their work.
To sculpt is to carve, fabricate, cast, or otherwise form from solid material a three dimensional work of art. The intent in the selection of artists for SCULPT was to include an array of sculptural materials and a variety of techniques. Materials include steel, found objects, iron, rope, dirt, copper, light, plastic, organic materials, glass, bronze, fabric, wood, aluminum, and stone. Techniques include carving, welding, casting, fabricating, and assemblage.
The spectrum of physicality in SCULPT creates surprising visual and conceptual exchanges between the individual works. The diversity and variety of the works also elucidates the tension between the physical nature and form of an object and its idea. These sculptors strive to compel the viewer to consider ideas ranging from the formal to the poetic, the chimerical to the elegant, the referential to the playful.
