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Joseph Wheelwright: New Sculptures: Works in Stone, Bronze and Wood
January 2 - February 3, 2007
Boston, MA:New Sculptures will exhibit the works of Joseph Wheelwright from the past two years and feature figures from trees and roots cast into bronze at the foundry on his land in Vermont. The figures are “lost-wood castings” because the wood that inspired them is burned out completely. Then the figures are welded to bases and colored with a bark brown patina. They are like trees dancing upside-down, light on their feet. Several particularly lively figures were developed from manzanita trees of Arizona, known as the “tree of life” by Native Americans.
New stone carvings will also be presented. Most of the stones have been aged in a large tumbler which operates in the forest during the summers. Many of the carvings are highly detailed, with human features and polishedareas providing depth of color. Other stones are rough and strange. One called “George and Joe” (Wheelwright is a twin) has twin features carved in a single gleaming quartz stone.
Wheelwright runs a weekly woodcarving class in his Dorchester studio, a group that has met for many years. Lately he has been carving flesh colored cherrywood, resulting in two works, “Abe” and “Diva,” which round out New Sculptures.
Joseph Wheelwright is a well known Boston based sculptor who was recently selected to create a permanent large bronze for the City of Boston. Other major works are locally sited at New England Biolabs in Ipswich, the Fitchburg Museum of Contemporary Arts, the Town of Carlisle, and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, which recently honored him with a year long exhibition of his stone heads and tree figures. A major exhibition of Wheelwright’s large tree figures, ranging to 30 feet tall, will open in the Spring of 2008 at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts. For more information about the Fruitlands exhibition call: Maud Ayson at 978-456-3924.
Wheelwright’s sculpture will be showing concurrently with the glass sculpture of David Naito.
Boston Sculptors Gallery, 486 Harrison Avenue
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday from 12 – 6 pm
For more information contact:
Jean Mineo, Director
617-482-7781
director@bostonsculptors.com
Joseph Wheelwright
617-288-8700
jwheelw484@aol.com
website:http://www.joewheelwright.com/
Receptions: First Friday receptions: January 5 and February 2, 2007 from 5 – 8 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 2 - February 3, 2007
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