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BRANT KINGMAN : BRONZE |
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Brant Kingman, Vessel, Cast bronze |
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Brant Kingman, Fluidity, cast bronze on sandstone base |
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Brant Kingman, Frozen Fire, bronze |
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Left: Brant Kingman, Molting, ed 8, cast bronze Right: Brant Kingman, Mortal Coil, ed 8, bronze |
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Brant Kingman, Outgrown Gown , bronze |
Brant Kingman, Revelation, bronze |
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Brant Kingman, Yesterday's Hero, bronze |
Artist Statement This exhibition focuses attention on the small works I sculpt in clay and wax. These are not the sculptures to which I devote the majority of my time. You can read about those sculptures in my essay on Cultural Fossils and Contemporary Relics. The sculptures I've brought here are ones I make when I'm not thinking about making art, in my down time. They are what I do instead of smoking. The bronzes I produce in my career as a sculptor are extraordinarily process intensive. They are usually relatively large and require numerous molds and castings. Sometime they take months, even years to make. But the pieces I've brought for Grace are of a scale that I can easily hold in my hands. They are spontaneous expressions. In them, you can see the traces of my fingers as they squeeze the material to form the shapes. I've brought examples from several different series. I want to give you a couple examples of my inspiration. The smooth-surfaced figures that look as though they were made by bending sheets of bronze are examples of a series I call Folded Figures. What I modeled were actually sheets of wax that I then cast in the lost wax method. The works were inspired by the material itself. My interest in these sculptures is to use the least amount of manipulation to create the most graceful anthropomorphic forms possible. Making them is a sort of Zen exercise, less is more. I often carry several lumps of wax with me. When I have to wait, I pull one out and begin to model it in my hands. When I travel on airplanes, I carry half a dozen pieces of wax with me. I've learned from previous trips that many people like to model shapes. Once I had my entire row modeling things in wax. Usually it's impossible to save these creations. But sometimes, like when I'm sitting around my kitchen after dinner chatting with my family or friends, I invent some shapes that I like. These I set aside. The smallest works here are examples that were created in situations like this. Brant Kingman |
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BRANT KINGMAN
Education: 1976 Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; B. A. (Fine Arts) Exhibits: * indicates a one man exhibition 2004 ArtExpo Atlanta, Atlanta,GA 2002 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI 2001 Seebeck Gallery, Pleasant Prairie, WI 2000 Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1994 Installations and Art Direction: Events, Exhibits and Installations: 1980 Partial Listing of Corporate Collections: |
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