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Wire is light and easy to install and [wire] drawings don't fade in the
sun. Wire is also real easy to clean and, if you need it to go with
your decor, you can paint it any color you want without changing the
image" - Bart Soutendijk
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= Innovators and Pioneers in the Field of Contemporary Wire Sculpture
Leigh
Pennebaker
uses jagged metal fencing and rebar tie-wire to construct wire
fashion-oriented sculptures. She is intrigued by the contrast of the
harsh materials and the soft, flowing subject matter. Her works are a
sculptural commentary on the social and political connotations of
entrapment and bondage juxtaposed with iconic feminine beauty.
Tom
Phillips
Word Sculpture: Wire Sculpture
Ron
Rayment and Adrian Rayment
formed Rayment Wire in 1987. They create individual wire sculptures,
and produce wirework in both contemporary and Victorian styles.
creating large structures such as gazebos, rose temples, plus trellis,
arches and a comprehensive range of wirework furniture for both gardens
and interior.
Ernie
Rose
lives in Hillsboro, KY, where he is employed in a pallet mill. In his
free time he wroks at building furniture and of course his first love,
twisting wire, which he has done "since he can remember". He enjoys
playing chess with his nephew, or at least use to until he started
beating him. A self-taught wire sculptor who fearlessly combines "twist
ties" with other wires, Ernie Rose has several wire works in a folk art
exhibit. Contact:
dunkirks@alltel.net
Sophie
Ryder
of Great Britain renders moody, densely woven figurative and
semi-abstract wire sculptures with strong surface movement and a strong
sense of mythic presence.
Alan
Saret,
whose abstract, organic wire sculptures received acclaim in the
sixties, had a fascination with the free-form, random and organic
nature of common fencing wire.
Gerry
Sattele
creates powerful, densely packed abstract wire forms.
Jack
Sewell
of Eureka, CA creates large-scale humans and other forms in welded
copper wire and tubing.
Dar
Shelton
started working with wire geometric solids in 1993. He makes airy
extension from the points and planes of conventional solids...
transforming them into something entirely different.
Alison
Bailey Smith
wearable art from recycled coloured wire.
*Bart
Soutendijk,
wire muralist, devoted thirty years to paring down and refining his
"condensed figurative" wire wall sculptures. Starting with a drawing
based on his own photographs, he strips away all non-essential lines.
He creates a wire model, then bends steel rods by hand to create a
free-hanging wall sculpture.
Ron
Stattner
of Montreal, Canada applies his love of surfing and music to whimsical
wire musicians, dancers and people engaged in sports from copper and
steel wire.
Ryan
Stimers
played with wire in school, graduated college with an engineering
degree, but decided to become a full time artist. He enjoys the
serendipity of traveling light and traveling far, using just a pair of
needle-nose pliers to make custom single-strand wire sculptures from
16-gauge wire "on the spot".
Nathaniel
Stitzlein
creates wire sculptures based on various types of fish, animals and
portraits of people. |
World
Class Wire Sculpture
· Elizabeth Berrien (707) 445-4931 · email wireladye@yahoo.com
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