tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32038454654338678092024-03-21T10:41:58.512-07:00Alexander Wilds, sculpture, drawings, paintings and printsA portfolio of works by sculptor Alexander Wilds, in various media, as well as architectural projects.Alexander Wildshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04501135738404227216noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203845465433867809.post-26302375205413206212012-02-13T06:37:00.000-08:002012-02-13T06:37:08.950-08:00Current exhibition, Spring 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOuBSSku2DMiZBFRpbThPz9N8tC_YcdNPI2UXE2h7sWUWtdgRgnwjXALCTUnuviNSGu8l6gm7Spea_MxBWPUrJ_Dfp2KtFEwZqRkmXME2LiLy4reYw6pFuUVJaK2K44fHOo_5EARw2ZY/s1600/Alexander+Wilds:+Yukiko+Oka+postcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOuBSSku2DMiZBFRpbThPz9N8tC_YcdNPI2UXE2h7sWUWtdgRgnwjXALCTUnuviNSGu8l6gm7Spea_MxBWPUrJ_Dfp2KtFEwZqRkmXME2LiLy4reYw6pFuUVJaK2K44fHOo_5EARw2ZY/s1600/Alexander+Wilds:+Yukiko+Oka+postcard.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My wife Yukiko and I have a show at 80808 Gallery in Columbia, SC. I am very excited to seeYukiko's work in public. Please come to the reception on Friday, March 2, 2012.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Alexander Wildshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04501135738404227216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203845465433867809.post-96511858300743652012-01-04T17:29:00.000-08:002013-03-30T19:38:38.525-07:00New work, 2012 #3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As usual, as yet untitled, rather Manzu-esque, with a little Modigliani, cast aluminum over walnut. About 24" tall over all. This was made while teaching, basically a demonstration piece, both in modeling wax and mold making, as well as a good example of "truth to materials", a principle concern of mine in teaching.</div>
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I rarely title anything. Pieces develop names over time as a matter of convenience, such as, "Hey, get that woman with the spikes in her shoulder." Someday someone gives a piece a name that sticks, but usually it is not me. I just make them.</div>
Alexander Wildshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04501135738404227216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203845465433867809.post-7267886819701794872012-01-04T17:15:00.000-08:002012-01-04T17:15:21.323-08:00WILDS STUDENT WORK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are some images of my students' work from Benedict College over the past year. We are an open enrollment HBCU in Columbia, SC. Most of of students are relatively poor, often the first in their families to attend college. I add we are not well funded, so most of the work is made from found, free, or very cheap materials. It is the best way to learn, I think. The images are from Printmaking, and life drawing classes, as well as 3D Design for freshmen, as well as Ceramics and Sculpture classes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cU7WW0NpZLA/TwT2Enc6z2I/AAAAAAAAAio/TgH30xv7ogQ/s1600/DSCF2668.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cU7WW0NpZLA/TwT2Enc6z2I/AAAAAAAAAio/TgH30xv7ogQ/s320/DSCF2668.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">3D design</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also untitled, with a working name of "Bronze Footed Africa", again it is mixed media, an ebony figure over wood, copper, rawhide, nails, and a bronze foot. It is about 48" high. Like other work of mine, it grew over several years, completed 12/2011.</div>Alexander Wildshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04501135738404227216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203845465433867809.post-68336436591778182042011-07-04T08:21:00.000-07:002011-07-04T08:21:59.501-07:00The Week in PaintI am painting a lot this summer. I am making sculpture, too, and some paintings are moving into low relief mixed-media wall sculpture, as one might expect. But these are a few canvases from the past week or two. Quite a few more are under construction.<br />
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Most of these paintings are, obviously, seascapes. Until recently I lived for twenty years beside the Sea of Japan, and these days I miss it. It had a profound influence and effect upon me, particularly as an artist, mostly in terms of colors and textures. But for now it serves as a convenient format for my interest in paint as a material, for I am exploring what one can do with paint. I am doing a lot of glazing (water), heavy impasto (land) and pouring (sky), and the format allows simple strong compositions that do not get in the way of the paint. So, I might be all full of nostalgia for coastal rural Japan, but it is just an excuse to slap paint on hot summer days.<br />
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Last sculpture I made in Taos, New Mexico, and nearly the last of this series of lifesize figures in mixed media (a few others were made as commissions). <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As I have said elsewhere as well, I am making "seascapes", but it is just a format, one that allows large areas and simple composition, letting me concentrate of the painterly and color field aspects. Mostly I am experimenting, seeing what sort of depths, textures, translucencies, etc., I can get out of paint as paint, rather than trying to illustrate anything. I am going for simple, bold compositions that don't get in the way of the paint itself. This is very much the "no method, no guru" approach to painting - let it roll and see what happens.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHGpCDj248oHGb0Q3B01K5jH6Sf1YCG0i4Twcp47mb98f3sfmICU_c1cwRwr-37GOu9W9oTHDHbTIgC-KrJTtD1aLPr8aNYs17NjHXbkZkY7gut_I5_f4KHaSJ6M3Om1D4H-_MLhrKWUo/s1600/Sailing+to+Ehime+-+Bungo+with+Monsoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHGpCDj248oHGb0Q3B01K5jH6Sf1YCG0i4Twcp47mb98f3sfmICU_c1cwRwr-37GOu9W9oTHDHbTIgC-KrJTtD1aLPr8aNYs17NjHXbkZkY7gut_I5_f4KHaSJ6M3Om1D4H-_MLhrKWUo/s640/Sailing+to+Ehime+-+Bungo+with+Monsoon.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sailing to Ehime across the Bungo Kaido, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oil on panel 24" x 65", 2011</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT_TbtTCsS5JjCol9_dMHf64Z2DChDvHcdvIrIPilqo6H4fJJZ4aC-VYDDg8bMlPi3UEuHNOyoa2l9sjD4tuQkJsUNw9Q6ckke0EzIR9oh4nqVAN4FnVq_F9K4gtNrTcR9dU5tNq1QsXw/s1600/Sea+of+Japan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT_TbtTCsS5JjCol9_dMHf64Z2DChDvHcdvIrIPilqo6H4fJJZ4aC-VYDDg8bMlPi3UEuHNOyoa2l9sjD4tuQkJsUNw9Q6ckke0EzIR9oh4nqVAN4FnVq_F9K4gtNrTcR9dU5tNq1QsXw/s640/Sea+of+Japan.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sea of Japan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">oil on panel 24" x 65", 2010-2011</div>Alexander Wildshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04501135738404227216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203845465433867809.post-44341526455652511282011-06-11T15:15:00.000-07:002011-06-11T15:15:34.180-07:00Alex and summer effortsThis is an email I sent to my old pal Lon Anthony yesterday. It sums up what I am doing these days.<br />
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The above is "Proud Augusta" , carved 2008 - 2010, American Cherry. I got back to America after decades in Japan to be astonished at the scale of American womanhood. I wasn't trying to make any statement, just carving what I reckoned the ladies in the neighborhood might look like. I was living in Augusta, Ga., hence the name.<br />
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"Himiko and Her Pet Sphynx go to the Art Show" mixed media, lifesize (whatever that means for a sphynx), somewhere from 1997 - 2011. It's sort of like George Washington's axe, or bands like Iron Butterfly. This piece has been reconfigured and rebuilt several times. It is a big favorite of mine.<br />
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"Yukiko Seiza", lifesize, cast iron, 2005, and "Sea of Japan" oil on board, 2011. <br />
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"Pool", polyester resins on goatskin, 40" high, 2008<br />
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Sort of the Ozymandius thing - there was an entire wood and bronze sphynx, alas too big to fit through any door in any house. When we moved to America in 2007, I just brought the head and bronze fittingss, figuring to rebuild it. But I'll just show the head and use the fittings on another piece later on.<br />
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"Oshiri Hibachi" bronze, lifesize, 2004-ish My wife Yukiko was the model. I have always loved the full voluptuous forms of some Korean and Greek pottery. This is a comment about that.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BBefn1RG0Ac/TdxnwLRy0_I/AAAAAAAAAEw/eBZASdx4bRA/s1600/bronze+head.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BBefn1RG0Ac/TdxnwLRy0_I/AAAAAAAAAEw/eBZASdx4bRA/s320/bronze+head.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Shimada" 2005, bronze </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The head is the sole surviving part of a failed casting of a full seated figure, which sat in the corner of the studio for months if not years.</div>Alexander Wildshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04501135738404227216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203845465433867809.post-11909558650300549182011-05-24T18:47:00.000-07:002011-05-28T18:22:03.076-07:00Pool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih8E4yvKdXWxQlWpKWB70VdVXXpixqUHxNjA44YWVgm67cf-Z5udOn9iDTvh4BoPrV_2T1M_TiRaN70c1pfSt5BcnkrsyLqQ0Qw-fVFQ_PMXP5UGsyQlC0u51ioXsqDwdFzwIzAQuDVc8/s1600/The+Pool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih8E4yvKdXWxQlWpKWB70VdVXXpixqUHxNjA44YWVgm67cf-Z5udOn9iDTvh4BoPrV_2T1M_TiRaN70c1pfSt5BcnkrsyLqQ0Qw-fVFQ_PMXP5UGsyQlC0u51ioXsqDwdFzwIzAQuDVc8/s640/The+Pool.jpg" width="466" /></a></div>Pool, 38" high, hide over wood, with fiberglass and steel. I love to paint. It is odd how we grow: I draw and make etchings almost daily, but these are always figurative, from life, with considerable realism. I paint weekly, but these are always abstract, painterly, and formal, nearly content free. I make furniture and architecture, always well crafted, and make sculpture which is defiantly never well crafted. Don't ask me why this is so. It has puzzled me for many years.Alexander Wildshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04501135738404227216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203845465433867809.post-17535075871868963162011-05-24T18:38:00.000-07:002011-05-28T18:21:29.326-07:00Walnut and Nails, a southern tradition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FBmyGobxaXs/TdxL2GTWkaI/AAAAAAAAADY/tTWIbDbReWg/s1600/Walnut+Yukiko%252C+with+nails.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FBmyGobxaXs/TdxL2GTWkaI/AAAAAAAAADY/tTWIbDbReWg/s320/Walnut+Yukiko%252C+with+nails.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These three 'table top" figures were made along with several others in 2005 - 2007. Indeed, a dozen or so variants exist, and I will make yet more. They are of wood, with lacquers, metals and hide coverings. I usually do not make more than one or two of an image, as I like to keep my work fresh for myself, but I enjoy these as a theme and format.</div>Alexander Wildshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04501135738404227216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203845465433867809.post-5594803647410328132011-05-24T17:39:00.000-07:002011-05-28T18:20:13.919-07:00"Lips"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yzpCxMJJltI/TdxLoKOB4VI/AAAAAAAAADE/eBnGeIYrxGI/s1600/lips+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yzpCxMJJltI/TdxLoKOB4VI/AAAAAAAAADE/eBnGeIYrxGI/s320/lips+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Chinese character for mouth is a square: lips are over a mouth, a visual echo, which is clever, but I thought of that years after I made it. Most of my work just happens, born of controlled chaos from scraps in my studio, no method, no guru.</div>Alexander Wildshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04501135738404227216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3203845465433867809.post-56198239634685605752011-05-24T17:35:00.000-07:002011-05-28T18:19:46.013-07:00Another Africa, 2010 or so........ebony, goatskins and nails<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCvpLE4Z4GmG-jWEH74hBdpdec4ZEbzimL42h0yU4o3sb9rd4-E5oWzKQXQqzeC7PY2m0YwRK1XzIDPeXU57lRJhtzlZgCr8bsTk58ezq9rt_swluj18OxIXOAHCjgiqK8i4KEKdlwXbY/s1600/africa+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCvpLE4Z4GmG-jWEH74hBdpdec4ZEbzimL42h0yU4o3sb9rd4-E5oWzKQXQqzeC7PY2m0YwRK1XzIDPeXU57lRJhtzlZgCr8bsTk58ezq9rt_swluj18OxIXOAHCjgiqK8i4KEKdlwXbY/s400/africa+3.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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