Artist Registry
Sydney Reichman
Contact information
Gallery One
Shelley McBurney
5133 Harding Road
Nashville TN 37205
(615) 352-3006
art@galleryone.biz
www.galleryone.biz
Artist statement
Starting as an artist in clay my study became focused on creating vessel forms from one of a kind functional pieces to those on a monumental scale. Simultaneously came the exploration of a piece of rough and raw land; swampy, bull-dozed and briar-filled. The monumentality of the clay seemed to be proving ground for sculpting a hand-built home and working that raw earth back into a powerful reclamation. The experience of building, architecture, and carving the land moved my work further into large forms and the progression of clay into metal.
Having had no training in large metal work, a new vocabulary of technique was being forged. Moving with a beginner's mind, sheets of copper were being hammered and manipulated into abstract figurative forms. Continuing to explore different techniques, the surroundings of living deep in the woods was making an obvious comeback into the work. Giant pod, leaf, wing and bird forms were created. The connection of these pieces and the figurative work was striking. Now in the terrain where the landscape of figure merges with the organic geometry of nature, the pieces demanded to become a part of nature. Launching pieces on ponds and in the air, the focus became interaction and creating living environments. While working on these large forms, balance came in the origin of smaller pieces. A series of copper boxes containing visual and political narratives, using porcelain and mixed metals, was created. This moved into sculptural paintings on metal with poetry, growing into a collaboration with a composer and performance artist. Using the copper sculptures as primordial forest of resonating vessels, a theatrical performance piece of sound and images was produced.
Coming to the land to do my work has fed every aspect of my art from a deep concern of the environment to an interpretive sense of form, structure, asymmetrical symmetry, balance and the meditative quality that living in a natural environment feeds. Working now on a WIND VESSEL, FLOATING WATER and WING series, my objective is to bring that very quality of meditation and interaction with nature into my work.
Resume / bio
Education
- Middle Tennesse State University, Murfreesboro TN, 1976
- George Peabody College, Nashville TN, 1975
- Boston University, Boston MA, 1970
Exhibitions
- First Annual Sculpture Invitational, Tennessee State University, Nashville TN, 1996
- Central South Art Competition, The Parthenon Museum, Nashville TN, 1996
- Vaangard National Juried Competition, Nashville TN, 1996
Collections and Major Commissions
- Tennesse State Museum
- Tennesee Bicentennial Exhibition, 1996
- Andrew Carnegie Library, Philadelphia PA, 1986 - carved clay mural
(Information last updated: 31 January 2006)
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