Patrick Dougherty: Making The Birds Proud
Combining his carpentry skills and his love for nature, Patrick Dougherty uses vernacular building techniques and tree saplings to create immersive, otherworldly site-specific sculptures that twist, tower, bend, coil, and soar. Merging art, craftsmanship, and design, they attest to the wonder and awe-inspiring power of the natural world.
Dougherty has honed his method of bending and weaving sticks across more than three decades. As an environmentally engaged artist, he uses only natural resources and renewable materials, yielding temporary works, as exposure to the elements wears down the installations over time. Despite 鈥� or perhaps due to 鈥� their ephemerality, Dougherty鈥檚 whimsical creations are playful invitations that enliven our human desire to dream and imagine.
Dougherty will work on-site for three weeks in October with SCAD students and staff, using hundreds of sticks and saplings to create his site-specific installation, commissioned on the occasion of the SCAD Museum of Art鈥檚 10th anniversary.
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Combining his carpentry skills and his love for nature, Patrick Dougherty uses vernacular building techniques and tree saplings to create immersive, otherworldly site-specific sculptures that twist, tower, bend, coil, and soar. Merging art, craftsmanship, and design, they attest to the wonder and awe-inspiring power of the natural world.
Dougherty has honed his method of bending and weaving sticks across more than three decades. As an environmentally engaged artist, he uses only natural resources and renewable materials, yielding temporary works, as exposure to the elements wears down the installations over time. Despite 鈥� or perhaps due to 鈥� their ephemerality, Dougherty鈥檚 whimsical creations are playful invitations that enliven our human desire to dream and imagine.
Dougherty will work on-site for three weeks in October with SCAD students and staff, using hundreds of sticks and saplings to create his site-specific installation, commissioned on the occasion of the SCAD Museum of Art鈥檚 10th anniversary.
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