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June Issue 2007
Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in Hendersonville, NC, Offers Works by Sculpture Artists
The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in Hendersonville, NC, is presenting the exhibit, It's Only Natural: Current work by Artists of the Rudnick Nature Trail, on view through July 27, 2007.
The Perry N. Rudnick Trail showcases work that
demonstrates the ability of public art to interpret and/or enhance
the natural environment for trails and greenways. This exhibit
showcases recent work by 12 of the 14 artists whose sculpture
comprises the public art residing on the Trail and 50-acre grounds
of the UNC Asheville Kellogg Center in Hendersonville.
Harry McDaniel
David Nash, Harry McDaniel, Sean Pace and J. Roberts (2003); Roger Halligan and David Tillinghast (2005); as well as Fred and Kato Guggenheim, Dan Millspaugh, Rudy Rudisill, Scott Strader and Cynthia Wynn (2006) are among the featured artists in this exhibition, whose works range from the Minimal to the whimsical.
Fred and Kato Guggenheim
Elegant Minimalist compositions range from the clean geometry of Fred and Kato Guggenheim's concrete, glass and steel sculpture The Chains that Bind Us to the Daniel Millspaugh's tributes to Modernism, the richly textured, organic cast bronzes Saarinen's Harem and Homage to Man Ray.
Rudy Rudisill
Rudy Rudisill and Roger Halligan employ surface
as a source of exploration. Characterized by their richly patinated
surfaces, stairways and structures, Rudisill's galvanized steel,
architectonic sculptures allude to the universal themes of shelter
and passage, of mankind and of time. Halligan's color saturated,
mixed-media "cement" drawings Untitled with Blue
Vertical and What's Inside serve as spontaneous sketches.
He describes them as "a random search of symbols, owing as
much to early cave art as [they do] to the Abstract Expressionists."
David Tillinghast will be creating two site specific installations
within the CCCD galleries, drawing his materials of choice directly
from the environment.
Cynthia Wynn
Sculptures by Harry McDaniel, Cynthia Wynn, and Sean Pace exude freshness and whimsicality. McDaniel employs humor to make a poignant commentary on the modern-day, pill-popping culture in Fetishes; explores a clean, Calder-inspired aesthetic in his mobile Nebula II; and transforms a child's toy into visually compelling Op Art Jack-In-the-Box. Wynn weds form, function and fantasy in her furniture. Comprising wrenches ranging from the diminutive to the colossal, her iron and steel Wrench Chair, will delight tool and furniture aficionados alike and conjure the kid in all of us! Perhaps the most intriguing among them is Sean Pace's kinetic Death Slapping Machine, in which a rubber chicken collides repetitively with a smiling skull. Perhaps laughing in the face of death is the best medicine?
In 2002, The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design received a multi-year grant from The Perry N. Rudnick Foundation for the design and construction of the Trail; the commissioning of eight of the fourteen currently existing sculptures. A second grant was awarded to the Center in 2007, supporting the publishing of public art trail maps; two large kiosks outlining the history of the trail and its properties; and signage about the plants found therein.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Center at 828/890-2050 or visit (www.craftcreativitydesign.org).
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