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Brad Howe: Working Fictions
Brad Howe seeks to build on the tradition of geometric abstraction and to sustain that tradition as a living, viable discourse.
Balancing playfulness, wit, strength, stillness, and motion, Brad Howe鈥檚 sculptures are dynamic experiments in color and form. Having started his artistic career making mobiles reminiscent of Alexander Calder鈥檚 pioneering midcentury kinetic art, he continues to infuse his work with a sense of lightness. Even in sculptures made of heavy steel, he creates elements that twist, rise, and perch. His quieter, stationary wall sculptures incorporate arching lines that recall elegant movements. In addition to Calder, his influences include Arp and Brancusi鈥攁rtists who infused solid matter with a similar gravity-defying feel.
The idea of social engagement and conversation is a constant theme in Howe鈥檚 practice, evident in the way his light-hearted sculptures activate the viewer鈥檚 space, as well as in his passion for creating public art and for working closely with collectors on commissioned projects. "My sculptures examine vitality and celebrate beauty,鈥� he has said. 鈥淭heir aim is to capture the vigor of life and radiate with unabashed potentiality. These are the issues that stimulate me as a person and as an artist, and that are discussed over and over with those who sit with me at my fire and with those at whose fire I find myself sitting."
Brad Howe seeks to build on the tradition of geometric abstraction and to sustain that tradition as a living, viable discourse.
Balancing playfulness, wit, strength, stillness, and motion, Brad Howe鈥檚 sculptures are dynamic experiments in color and form. Having started his artistic career making mobiles reminiscent of Alexander Calder鈥檚 pioneering midcentury kinetic art, he continues to infuse his work with a sense of lightness. Even in sculptures made of heavy steel, he creates elements that twist, rise, and perch. His quieter, stationary wall sculptures incorporate arching lines that recall elegant movements. In addition to Calder, his influences include Arp and Brancusi鈥攁rtists who infused solid matter with a similar gravity-defying feel.
The idea of social engagement and conversation is a constant theme in Howe鈥檚 practice, evident in the way his light-hearted sculptures activate the viewer鈥檚 space, as well as in his passion for creating public art and for working closely with collectors on commissioned projects. "My sculptures examine vitality and celebrate beauty,鈥� he has said. 鈥淭heir aim is to capture the vigor of life and radiate with unabashed potentiality. These are the issues that stimulate me as a person and as an artist, and that are discussed over and over with those who sit with me at my fire and with those at whose fire I find myself sitting."
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