Wesley Rickert
Artist Statement
My working methods have more in common with construction than traditional sculpture. But this is a bit of a misleading statement as I obviously use no blue prints or plans of any kind. Sometimes I know the nature of a character before completion, others only on completion and still others changed and changed again. I worked to capture specific random physical gestures in steel, at times allowing the sculpture to build itself. I had no wish to overly direct or debate the work, as this would have been contrary to the unknowable nature of the characters being created.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2005 Extras: The Artist and His Unknown Model, Hollander York Gallery, Toronto
2004 Re-Constructions in My Head, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto
Group
2006 All Terrain, Canadian Sculpture Centre
2004 Group Show, Durham West Arts Centre, Ajax
2004 Metamorphosis: The Personality of Change, Ezair Gallery, New York, NY
2004 All Terrain, Canadian Sculpture Centre
2004 A Fine Balance, Canadian Sculpture Centre
email: gallery@cansculpt.org
Media: Welded Steel
SSC Member Since: 2002
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