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Sculpture
Chair Standing on Its Head
Chair Standing on its Head
Wendell Castle, (Emporia, KS, 1932 - 2018, Scottsville, NY)
Castle, Wendell
United States
1932 - 2018
Male
43 x 31 x 33 in. (109.2 x 78.7 x 83.8 cm)
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Maple and jelutong
Maple and jelutong
2001
2001
2001
20th century, by Rochester artists, chairs, School for American Craftsmen, sculpture
Sculpture
Wendell Castle’s art delights and surprises us, and this example is no exception. As if made for a topsy-turvy world, the stick-figure chair stands on a tromp-l’oeil (French for “fool the eye”) pillow that seems to be soft and filled with feathers. At the same time, we can see the wood’s grain and joints and know that it is a hard surface.
Wendell Castle is an internationally acclaimed artist who is based in nearby Scottsville, New York. In his more than fifty-year career, he has continued to explore the possibilities inherent in the medium of wood, and to expand the conceptual realities that can be expressed with it.
[Summer 2015]
on the right side of chair seat
Wendell Castle
2001.14
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Memorial Art Gallery
1/31/2002
2001.14DI3
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2001.14DI1
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2001.14DI2
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2001.14DI#4
digital image
7/16/2015
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Sculpture
Sears Ross tji wara (mother and child)
Willie Cole, (New Jersey, 1955 - )
Cole, Willie
United States
1955
Male
Primary
47 x 26 x 7 3/4 in. (119.4 x 66 x 19.7 cm)
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overall
Mixed media
Mixed media
2002
2002
2002
EX2007.GG1.25
Sculpture
Willie Cole’s work explores areas of overlap and intersection among African, American and African American cultures. Cole makes his art from the reused detritus (otherwise known as garbage) of contemporary life. In this sculpture of old bicycle parts, the artist reinterprets the tji wara (also spelled chi wara) masks of the Bamana people of Mali (like MAG's accession number 93.14).
With real-time communication, social networking and economic globalization, the internet of the 21st century fosters seamless and near-constant encounters across time and cultures. By Africanizing or ritualizing common western objects, Cole embraces and examines these encounters as he comments upon contemporary society.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
2006.40
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/22/2006
2006.40DI1
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2006.40TR1
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4 x 5
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Sculpture
Passenger Pigeon
Todd McGrain, (Rochester, NY, 1961 - )
McGrain, Todd
United States
1961
Male
Primary
76 x 25 x 25 in. (193 x 63.5 x 63.5 cm)
Bronze
Bronze
2007
2007
2007
Sculpture
Artist statement from http://www.toddmcgrain.com/:
The Lost Bird Project recognizes the tragedy of modern extinction by immortalizing North American birds, which have been driven to extinction, including the Passenger Pigeon, the Carolina Parakeet, the Labrador Duck, the Great Auk, and the Heath Hen.
The bronze sculptures I am creating will be subtle, beautiful, and hopeful reminders. The human scale of each sculpture elicits a physical sympathy. The smooth surface, like a stone polished from touch, conjures the effect of memory and time. I model these gestural forms to contain a taut equilibrium, a balanced pressure from outside and from inside—like a breath held in. As a group they are melancholy, yet affirming. They compel us to recognize the finality of our loss, they ask us not to forget them, and they remind us of our duty to prevent further extinction.
2007.26
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/4/2007
2007.26DI#1
digital image
Side 1
9/25/2007
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2007.26DI#2
digital image
Back
9/25/2007
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2007.26DI#3
digital image
9/25/2007
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2007.26DI#4
digital image
10/26/2018
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2007.26DI#5
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10/26/2018
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2007.26DI#6
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10/26/2018
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Sculpture
Millennium Bench
Albert Paley, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1944 - )
Paley, Albert
United States
1944
Male
74 x 124 x 45 in. (188 x 315 x 114.3 cm)
Stainless steel
Stainless steel
Stainless steel that has been plasma cut and hydraulically formed, individual elements then welded together. High level of refinement resulting in satin finish.
2000
2000
2000
1900-2000, 2000+, 21st Century, benches, by Rochester artists, School for American Craftsmen, sculpture
Sculpture
left side of bench at lower rightleft side of bench at upper right
Albert Paley
2000.19
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/12/2000
2000.19TR4
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studio
4 x 5
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studio with artist seated
4 x 5
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negative
2 x 3
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2000.19DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
4 x 5
10/30/2001
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2000.19DI2
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
4 x 5
11/9/2001
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2000.19DI3
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Memorial Art Gallery
Front
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2 1/4
10/30/2001
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2000.19DI#3
digital image
6/12/2013
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Sculpture
V-8 Universe
David Regan, (Buffalo, New York , 1964 - )
Regan, David
United States
1964
Male
19 1/2 x 22 x 17 1/4 in. (49.5 x 55.9 x 43.8 cm)
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Porcelain
Porcelain
2003
2003
2003
Sculpture
In <em>V-8 Universe</em> a soup tureen in the shape of an engine sits on a tire-rim-shaped base. Regan incorporates the domestic, the technological, and the religious in a comical mechanic’s version of the three levels of Dante’s <em>Inferno</em>: heaven, purgatory, and hell. The tureen lid, an air-filter housing, is an angel-filled heaven that turns around a god-like light source emitted by a wing nut. Below, the spark plugs illuminate a medieval cathedral (a mechanic’s idea of purgatory?) peopled by planets, saints, and monks carrying car parts. In hell, an endless traffic jam is fueled by the road rage of skeletons.
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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2004.11a-c
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Memorial Art Gallery
6/4/2004
2004.11DI#1
digital image
Three-quarter
10/10/2007
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10/10/2007
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10/14/2021
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Sculpture
Maquette for "Swing Low"
Alison Saar, 1956 -
Saar, Alison
United States
1956
Female
Primary
22 1/16 x 12 3/16 x 24 in. (56.1 x 31 x 61 cm)
Bronze
Bronze
2007
2007
2007
Images of Black People
Sculpture
Take some time to look at this figure of a woman. Don’t miss the roots that she trails behind her and the faces and objects that are scattered on her skirt. This is a portrait sculpture of Harriet Tubman, the heroic woman who escaped from slavery and yet returned to the South between 1849 and 1860 to lead over seventy slaves to freedom. In later years, she worked alongside Susan B. Anthony to advance women’s right to vote.
Artist Alison Saar was commissioned to create a public sculpture of Tubman for a park at 122nd Street in New York City. MAG’s work is a maquette, or a smaller version. Saar represented Harriet Tubman as a person of great determination and strength, and positioned her as an oncoming train because of her reputation as “the Moses of the Underground Railroad”. Even her petticoat resembles a train’s cowcatcher, pushing aside all obstacles in its path. Roots signify Tubman’s efforts to uproot slavery, and the uprootedness of the slaves who had to leave everything behind. “Swing Low” is a Negro spiritual said to be one of Tubman’s favorites.
[Gallery label, 2008]
lower edgelower edge
2008.15
item
Memorial Art Gallery
6/17/2008
6199DI1
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Front
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2008.15DI#3
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7/14/2008
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2008.15DI#4
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Side view of maquette
7/14/2008
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2008.15DI#5
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Detail of maquette
7/14/2008
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2008.15DI#6
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Detail of maquette
7/14/2008
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2008.15DI#7
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7/14/2008
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