2018 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit Opening Reception
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Four Corners Arts Center
Opening Artist Reception July 22nd 2018 2-4 p.m.
The Exhibit is free and open to the public during daylight hours??from June 1st ??through October 31st ??- except during private events at The Meeting House.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
On the lawn of The Meeting House, 3850 Main Road, Tiverton, RI 02878
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Please join Four Corners Arts Center as they present their 25th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Park, The Vast Horizontal Line of the Sea.?? Opening reception is Sunday July 22nd from 2-4 at the Meeting House.?? This year???s Curator is Ben Anderson Associate Professor of Art and Art History at University of Rhode Island.?? Featuring the works of Becci Davis, Jerry Mischak & Ben Anderson.
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The Vast Horizontal Line Of The Sea.
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??June 1- October 31, 2018
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Becky Davis, Jerry Mischak and Ben Anderson come together at Four Corners Arts Center???s Annual Outdoor Sculpture Park to exhibit new monumental work.????These works, driven by narrative, symbolism and pure abstraction push the viewer toward multiple levels of experience.????As the title may suggest, the limitless horizon of the sea may bring awareness to the self, or reveal an??avenue of diversion and wonder,??or establish a desire to interrupt the plane.?? ??Exhibiting work in Tiverton makes an artist keenly aware of their immediate proximity to the vast horizontal line.????Becky Davis comes to terms with it through the conjuring of maritime history with objects capable of telling a story.????Jerry Mischak explores an abstract notion toward the sculptural object as a relic, possibly something dragged up from the bottom of the sea, long since the mediation of the briny water has transformed it from its previous life.????Ben Anderson has constructed a distinct perpendicular line in relation to the horizontal, a totem.????Built from the materials of a fisherman and boat builder, Anderson carves white oak to create a vertical access with a small vestige of a ships spar at the top; the totem supports a bronze ring of glass globes, reminiscent of early fishing floats.
~Ben Anderson, Curator
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Works being presented:
??Becci Davis
Stand Up, Speak Up
2018??
Paper Clay
Stand Up, Speak Up, a paper-clay sculpture by Becci Davis, uses imagery to honor important women of Rhode Island???s past, while utilizing form to reference the local legend of the Whipping Post.
Jerry Mischak
Flower Houses One
Flower Houses Two
Flower Houses Three
Flower Houses Four
Flower Houses Five
2016??
Cement, Hydrocal plaster, Styrofoam, wood, cardboard, paint
???I started working on a group of sculptures in the spring of 2016 calling them ???Cosmic Constructions???. They were initially inspired by a book my daughter gave me on Soviet brutalist architecture as well as the desire to render in three dimensions some of the vases that have occupied space on tables in my collages. Pouring fast drying cement into cardboard molds became the means of realizing new and experimental forms. As the process developed, pieces of cardboard mold became embedded??in the dried cement, and slight irregularities on the surfaces established an eclectic personality of each piece. Emerging out of the architectural forms are abstracted floral shapes made of hydrocal plaster, which suggests a relationship between the cement base as a vessel and the top as a flower. As architecture is a vessel for people this is a vessel for cut flowers. When the pieces are arranged in a group they form a bizarre garden.???
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Ben Anderson
Fishermen???s Totem
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White Oak, Glass, Bonze, Copper, Cotton Seine, Rope
Fishermen???s Totem??pays homage to the working fishermen of New England. Made from a white oak tree, specially sawn in a graduated taper, by master sawyer Jack Delanoe of Dartmouth, MA. At top the carved totem is glass orbs mounted on a circular armature.
Please visit FourCornersArts.org for more information about the sculpture park.??
This year???s sculpture park is generously sponsored by The Cottage at Four Corners.