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Frank Lloyd Wright, New Sculpture
Sep 30, 2009 — 1 comment
This is Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois. It’s a really cool looking building, sort of hidden in the trees, sheltered from the road like it’s in the middle of a wilderness area. Oak Park is an interesting place, for many reasons that I will not delve into here, but especially for its almost ridiculous concentration of FLW buildings. We walked for 20 minutes and saw probably 10 homes and buildings designed by the man himself.
There are two of these figurative sculptures along the side of the house, very cool. The lines of his buildings are so different, so appealing.
I like most of his work, maybe not as something to live in myself, but the strangeness of his aesthetic is appealing in an I can’t believe he did got away with that type of way. I’ve been inside the Guggenheim (below), probably my favorite of his works, and to me one of the more impressive large-scale artworks ever.
Here is the newest clay study, Emerge.
Indian Head Medallion, Crater Lake
Sep 04, 2009 — 4 comments
Here is the completed Indian Head Medallion sculpture, to be cast into stone and put on the facade of a building in Akron, Ohio. You have to use your imagination, once it’s cast the hard lines and surface imperfections will soften. I had to simplify and rework the details so they would be sturdy in the stone. There are going to be 7 of them, roughly 20 feet off the ground, so I intentionally forced the proportions so that it will look better when viewed from below.
Here is a cool picture of Crater Lake in Oregon:
