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June Issue 2007
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Offers Major Exhbition by Thomas Sayre
Artspace
in Raleigh, NC, is offering a major exhibition entitled, Out
of the Ground: New Earthcastings, featuring works by Thomas
Sayre in Gallery 1, on view through June 30, 2007.
Thomas Sayre notes that his newest earthcast
sculptures are "born of rough molds dug in Mother Earth and
then usually stood up against Father Sun in the sky." Sayre's
Artspace exhibition will be the first time this work has moved
indoors into the more hermetic setting of a gallery, away from
the ever-changing external world.
Sayre is interested in how the earthcast objects will interact
with the neutral context of the Artspace Gallery - how the rough,
serendipitous surfaces, color, and form engage the controlled
environment of the exhibition. With his colleagues at Clearscapes,
Sayre has built three earthcast vessels with the intention of
transforming the gallery into a place where human intention -
the geometry, lighting, and quiet of the gallery, as well as the
idealized conical forms - intersects with the powerful and unpredictable
grain of the earth; where "nature-built" and "human-built"
might reach an interesting place of balance.
Sayre grew up in Washington, DC. He earned a degree in English
and Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He then moved to Ann Arbor, MI, where he was a Michigan
Fellow with a three-year grant from the Ford Foundation to make
sculpture at the University of Michigan. In 1975, Sayre attended
for one year the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Cranbrook
Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. In 1981, together with architect
Steven D. Schuster, Sayre formed Clearscapes, a multi-disciplinary
design firm with an office and studio in Raleigh. Clearscapes
is involved with building design, product design, and both large
and small-scale artwork.
Sayre continues to work actively as a sculptor with commissioned
public work in various collections across the United States, with
recent projects in Portland, OR, Nashville, TN, San Jose, CA,
and Phoenix, AZ. Internationally, Sayre has completed public projects
in Turkey, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Canada. Sayre's work is in
a number of collections including the North Carolina Museum of
Art, Bank of America, Northern Telecom, Penta Hotels, and Time
Warner.
The exhibition catalogue with essay by Brad Thomas is available at Artspace. Thomas is an artist and the director and curator of the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the center at 919/821-2787 or visit (www.artspacenc.org).
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