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Brad Howe: A Dance of Atoms

A Dance of Atoms: A Symphony of Color and Shape

Author: Jane Sherron De Hart, Charles A. Riley II, Anthony HadenGuest and Alexander Martins  

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Sculpture as a predominant art form balancing space, perception, and architecture.

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Sculpture as a predominant art form balancing space, perception, and architecture.

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This expansive volume follows key themes that Brad Howe has consistently explored throughout his career. His imagery plays off juxtapositions, contradictions, and coincidences. In this book, a woven tapestry emerges of Howe's work over time, reflecting ever-present spatial questions and thematic explorations.Brad Howe, born 1959 in Riverside, California, started his career in Brazil, after studying history in São Paulo. Recognized as a leading contemporary California artist and sculptor, he is best known for his large-scale public and private works; employing rigid materials, stainless steel and aluminum, animated by his vibrant color and challenging structural solutions. Howe's exuberant and pervasive work is grounded in a unique thought-provoking vision and philosophy. From the start, Howe has always taken his calling as an abstract artist, seeking poetry and unpredictable formulations. The interplay of his lyrical shapes and use of color are his signature characteristic. Sometimes his mood is vibrant and joyful with references to Calder, Miro, and Frank Stella, and then shifting to deeper explorations more subtle and restrained, with influences pointing to Brancusi, Arp, David Smith or Ellsworth Kelly. The resulting three-dimensional works are a dance of atoms, a romance between shapes, negative space and their playful shadows.The book is to be experienced as a symphonic arrangement of multiple voices. Sections, like instruments, come together in shared time, each instrumental group playing different narratives, creating a complex journey of rhythms and textures, functioning as a collective, contingent on each other, at times harmonious and resonant, at times enigmatic and dissonant.

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About the Author

Jane Sherron De Hart, writer, is professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.Charles A. Riley II is the director of the Nassau County Museum of Art, an arts journalist, curator and professor at Clarkson University.Anthony Haden-Guest is a writer, reporter and cartoonist. He was born in Paris and lives in New York and London. He has published in leading magazines in Britain and America.

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Public works and more from a leading Californian sculptor California-based artist Brad Howe (born 1959) employs materials such as stainless steel and aluminum for his large-scale geometric sculptures and public installations, which are further animated by his lyrical sensibility and vibrant use of color. This comprehensive volume follows key themes in Howe's work.

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Product Details

Publisher
Skira
Published
23rd June 2022
Pages
314
ISBN
9788857242583

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