David Smith

Born in Decatur, Indiana on March 9, 1906, Smith grew up in Paulding, Ohio, where his father Harvey ran the Paulding Telephone Company and mother Golda taught school. He studied at Ohio University and the University of Notre Dome, but dropped out to become a welder on an automobile production line in South Bend, Indiana. He joined the Art Students League of New York in 1927. There, he discovered the works of Picasso, Mondrian, Kandinsky, and the Russian Constructivists, and became friends with Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jan Matulka, and Jackson Pollock. Smith was profoundly influenced by the welded sculptures of Julio Gonzalez and of Picasso, he then started devoting himself entirely to metal sculptures, constructing compostions from steel and "found" scrap metals. However in the 50's Smith worked on a larger scale than ever before constucting huge objects of steel.

David Smith, Cubi XXVII, Steel 1965

David Smith, 1945, Ancient Houshold in Bronze

David Smith, Cubi VI Steel 1963, At the Israel Mueseum, Jerusalem

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David Altmejd

David Altmejd (1974-) was born in Montreal, Canada where he obtained his bachelor's degree in art. He went on to study at Columbia University in New York where he received his MFA in 2001. He has been of part many prestigious solo and group exhibitions even as a relatively young artist. Most of his work is easily recognizable by the obscure sculptures containing the human form, sometimes in the form of a werewolf. His forms are broken up by mirrors or other random materials but most commonly fractured objects protruding in many directions. The werewolf figure is now associated by some people to be a type of emblem for Altmejd. Although seemingly grotesque, David Altmejd claims that his sculptures are open ended narratives full of symbolic potential.

The Glasswalker, Mirror, epoxy, hair

Sans Titre, plexiglas thread acrylic paint, 2010

The Hunter, wood, epoxy, mirror, paint, horse hair, 2007

Eric McGehearty

Eric McGehearty has his Masters of Fine Art from UNT and has shown his art work nationally in venues such as: The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, The Museum of Fine Art at Florida State University and at the Piedmont Arts Museum in Virginia. In the field of public art McGehearty’s project in Fort Worth was recognized by the Americans for the Arts as one of the forty best projects in 2007. (ericmcgehearty.com)

Linear Reasoning
2006

Integrated Notions
2005
24"

Access Denied
2005
44"

Federic Lanovsky

Frederic Lanovsky is a contemporary sculptor.
He creates modern art on a monumental scale. His sculptures are unique and one of a kind. They are extremely colorful. Sculpting is not his only talent. Frederic likes to paint watercolors as well. Let’s say that modern art has always been his passion.
His statues are made with resin and fiberglass. (lanovsky.com)

The Table

The Tourists

The Family

Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and a craftsman. He believed that through sculpture and architecture, one could better understand the struggle with nature. Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles in 1904 to an irish-american teacher and editor, and a japanese poet. Isamu Noguchi was raised in Japan until, at 13, he was sent to the us to study.
after winning one of the first guggenheim fellowships in 1927, Noguchi travelled to paris where he worked for six months as a studio assistant to the sculptor, Constantin Brancusi.

Returning to New York in 1932, he made his name as a sculptor and portrait artist, as well as winning commissions for memorials, monuments and industrial designs. with his long-time friend, the visionary engineer Buckminster Fuller, he constructed models, planned outdoor projects, and investigated the ways in which people live and thrive in their environments.

He is best known for his abstract sculptures designed as adjuncts to architecture. An example of his environmental work is his massive red cube designed for the marine midland bank
building, New York city.

During the 1980s, Noguchi realized more public projects and created his own museum in long island, New York, where his large and varied collection of work is exhibited today. Noguchi died in New York city in 1988.

The Isamu Noguchi foundation, inc. is dedicated to maintaining and promoting the artistic legacy of sculptor Noguchi. The foundation operates the Isamu Noguchi garden museum; manages an extensive collection of noguchi sculpture, models, furniture and drawings; maintains records of the work of Isamu Noguchi and an archive of correspondence, manuscripts and photographs; organizes exhibitions of the work of Isamu Noguchi; loans Noguchi works to museums and special exhibitions; monitors the condition of Noguchi's works worldwide; encourages research and publication on the life and work of Isamu Noguchi; and manages the production and sale of Noguchi's akari light sculptures. http://www.designboom.com/portrait/noguchi/bio.html

Black Sun, granite, 1969

Garden Elements, Bronze set in aggregate concrete, 1962

Grey Sun, marble, 1967

Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) worked for the architect I. M. Pei as an architectural draftsman, a job that would profoundly influence his ideas about art. Working with architects not only affected LeWitt’s ideas concerning geometric precision and the viewer’s relationship to the work, it also taught him that as an artist he could work with others, as architects do, to realize his vision.

LeWitt was originally associated with the Minimalist art movement due to his extensive use of reductive, geometric forms, namely the identical cubes, employed since 1965 in serial configurations, that would become a signature form. LeWitt later became so closely associated with the Conceptual art movement that he is often called “the father of Conceptual art.” In 1967, LeWitt wrote “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art” in which he argued that the idea, or concept, that informs the work is more important than the final physical form that the artist employs to transmit his ideas.

LeWitt continues to be an important and influential artist. Many museums across the country have featured retrospectives on his work. (Holis Taggart)

Four-Sided Pyramid, 1997

Curved Wall with Towers, September 2005, Madison Square Park Conservancy

Modular Cube, 1999

Eduardo Chillida

Eduardo Chillida was born on January 10, 1924, in San Sebastián, Spain. After studying architecture from 1943 to 1947 at the University of Madrid, he began to concentrate on drawing and sculpture. In 1950 Chillida lived in Villaines-sous-Bois, France, before moving the following year to Hernani, near San Sebastián, where he formed a friendship with José Cruz Iturbe.Chillida’s first one-man show was held at the Galería Clan in Madrid in 1954. The city of San Sebastián commissioned him to execute a monument to Alexander Fleming in 1955. He won the International Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1958. He was awarded the Kandinsky Prize in 1960. He traveled to Greece in 1963 and the following year he won the Sculpture Prize at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. In 1966 Chillida met the Philosopher Martin Heidegger, whose book, Der Kunst und der Raum, he illustrated.Retrospectives of Chillida’s work were held in 1969 at museums in Basel, Zürich and Munich. In 1971 he was a visiting professor at the Carpenter Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later in the year traveled to Barcelona on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Sala Gaspar. Chillida and de Kooning shared the Andrew W. Mellon Prize, which was accompanied by a major show at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, in 1979. He was given a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1980; participated at the Venice Biennale in 1990 with a solo show in Ca’Pesaro palace, and received the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association in 1991. The Chillida-Leku Museum in Hernani, Gipuzkoa was opened in 2000. The artist died that same year, on August 19, in his residence on Mount Igueldo (http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/chillida_bio.html).

El Peine del Viento, Steel, 1977

Elogio del Horizonte, steel, 19 90

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, steel, 2006