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September Issue 2003
Tryon Fine Arts Center in Tryon, NC, Hosts Works by Bruce Newton
Tryon Painters and Sculptors are hosting an
exhibit of wood sculptures by Dr. Bruce Newton at the Tryon
Fine Arts Center in Tryon, NC, on view through Sept. 9, 2003.
Newton is a self-taught sculptor. His interest in sculpture
began in 1980 when trying to carve a hand; then gradually this
progressed to whole life-size people. According to Newton:
"I rarely sculpt anything other than people. My focus is
to express something that I feel, and, hopefully, that others
feel, about human nature. My work tends to be serious. I
see life as serious perhaps from spending 45 years treating very
sick patients. The sickest of the sick are the mentally ill. I
like themes that most people can relate to, so I find the Bible
to be a good, perhaps limitless source for material; so I tend
to use Biblical themes in some of my work. After years of
teaching psychiatry, I find there are limits as to what words
can express. We need art because art can express what words
cannot."
Newton was born in 1931 in Orangeburg, SC, and lived there through high school working in his father's automotive and machine shop business. He graduated from the Citadel, and received his MD degree from the Medical College of South Carolina. He specialized in psychiatry and practiced in Charleston, SC, for 45 years during which period he taught at the Medical University for 15 years. He is more or less retired.
For further information check our NC
Institutional Gallery listings, call 828/859-8322 or at (www.tryontfac.org).
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