Tag: abstractsculpture

Molly Sawyer

I have a full-time job in clean energy. In a prior manifestation of this career, I used to travel a lot, many times to Biloxi Mississippi to call on the local utility. I’ve vividly remember the “Hurricane Katrina high watermark” line painted on the wall in the lobby of the Holiday Inn on the waterfront, 400 yards from the ocean that previously had viciously swallowed this small City.

So when I saw that Merin McDivitt had reviewed Molly Sawyer: Through the Light, a material response to the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene, at the Spartanburg Art Museum, I immediately read it, and so should you

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Meg Lipke

Lawre Stone shouts out Meg’s newest noting they make enormity relatable.

This blog also represents a change for me. I posted about Meg once already in 2019 noting at the time the work was “one of the most interesting takes on the question of what is painting I’ve seen recently”- this is her IG post to which I linked. Prior to, well, today, I’ve typically avoided writing about an artist more than once, as a big part of this practice for me has been discovering new work or researching the canon. And, I have realized that keeping this catalog fresh is a legitimate way to pay respect to creatives that are working to stay relevant, so this will probably not be the last time I revisit a painter or other creative.

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Robert Morris

I find it to be a special treat when I discover there is an important artist from the canon that I’ve not yet covered here. Robert obviously made major contributions. In reading a bit more about his career. I was pleased to learn that he trained as an engineer, began his career in the Arts as an academic, and was also very interested in dance. During the 1960s and 1970s, Morris played a central role in defining three principal artistic movements of the period: Minimalist sculpture, Process Art, and Earthworks. In fact, Morris created his earliest Minimalist objects as props for his dance performances. He also had an important relationship with Linda Benglis that sparked some iconic photographs (NSFW!).

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Jackie Head

makes wall installations crafted from slipcast porcelain components that are designed utilizing a myriad of pattern making methods. She says “as we grow into adulthood, we are pressured to be more serious and focused in order to be successful. When developing patterns and shapes, I am playing and creating puzzles and problems for myself to solve. I am the creator of my own organized chaos by developing intricate systems, grids, patterns, and shapes.”

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Daniel G. Hill

recent sculptural work advances concerns of gravity, mechanics, flexibility, structure, and form that have motivated him since the early stages of his career, given inspiration from 19th century mechanical systems, toys from his childhood, Latin American 20th Century non-objective art, and late modernist cubic sculptures.

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