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Sculpture, Welded / painted steel on Wood
Size: 10 W x 25 H x 8 D in
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25 lbs. 2000 This sculpture was inspired by sculptor David Smith and a story involving his daughter (Rebecca Smith) and a high school friend of mine who shares the same name and lives in the same town (Bolton Landing, NY) as Smith's daughter. The non-daughter apparently gets the daughter's mail by accident sometimes. Anyway the random serendipity of the story was a departure point for channeling some of David Smith's genius into a homage to my friend. Not that the piece copies Smith's work (although Smith did use circles, he did not use them in this way). The interplay of curves and circles in this 25''-high sculpture is a fascinating variance of levels and proportions that make for an exciting and truly rare, beautiful and unique composition. This was done when I was 38 and I consider it to be one of my finest abstract masterworks. Another personal element of the piece is that I hand painted it (in a black to white tonal scale) where the change from light to dark tones resonates with the changing physical volumes and morphing linear thicknesses throughout the piece. The overall result, I think, is a highly complex and cerebral work considering it was done from a rough sketch.
Sculpture:Welded / painted steel on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:10 W x 25 H x 8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Linus Coraggio began drawing as a one-year-old and sculpting intricate cardboard and wood sculptures at age 8. He designed and built his first piece of furniture at age 12 . A New York City native, he attended Music and Art High School where he met and collaborated with other local artists. Coraggio first began showing his sculpture in group exhibits in NYC (some of which he curated at spaces like ABC No Rio) while still studying for his BFA at SUNY Purchase. It was during this time that he invented a genre of street art called “3-D Graffiti” (welded, graffitied constructions bolted onto No-Parking signposts in several major cities). After graduation Coraggio very actively participated in the blossoming East Village art scene. He formed and galvanized a sculpture group known as the "Rivington School" that created massive junk sculpture installations on the Lower East Side from 1985 to 1997 (including the infamous Gas Station/Space 2B—his sprawling scrap metal studio of 10 years in a former gas station on 2nd St. and Ave B). Coraggio attended the Whitney Museum Studio Program in 1986 and has received travel grants to Helsinki, Finland; Rotterdam, Holland; Lintz, Austria and Japan to do sponsored public sculptures. He still works and lives in NYC doing commissions and creating new welded abstract and figurative sculpture as well as one-of-a-kind metal furniture. Ringo Starr is among his collectors.
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