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Email PageGrausman: Sculpture and Drawings 2006
February 9, 2006- March 11, 2006
Reception: February 9, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Philip Grausman
Lohin Geduld Gallery
531 W 25th St Philip Grausman Charlie (1996) |
For thirty years Mr. Grausman has been fascinated by the formal dynamics of the human head. From his early investigations of natural forms--seed pods, germinating kernels, animals--Grausman gained a love and understanding of the natural world and of biomorphic structures. Sculpting the human figure was a natural progression from these studies and Grausman has come to see his current work as an amalgam of portraiture and landscape. The curving planes and angular recesses of a face become passages for travel and exploration.
Grausman’s sculpture succeeds in finding the universal in the study of the specific. His stainless steel and fiberglass heads are clearly individuals, each with their own nuanced physiognomy. They display a self-assurance and uniqueness similar to that found in the best Roman portraiture. Grausman’s heads also possess an eternal quality, echoing the striking depictions of human form ranging from Egyptian antiquity to 20th century masters such as Brancusi, Nadelman, and Lachaise. They seem to exist in a never ending moment of quiet reflection.
There is a dignity and inner strength that emanates from Grausman’s sculpture. It is this sense of
conviction that gives Grausman’s large-scale works an air of detachment. Because of this, his monumental fiberglass sculptures do not suggest bombast or triumph, but rather introspection and contemplation. This dichotomy makes them thoroughly contemporary, as they explore the idea of monument as self, and the self as monument. Philip Grausman extends and challenges the sculptural tradition and his efforts result in works of great individuality and timelessness.
Philip Grausman is currently Critic of Architectural Drawing in the Graduate School of Architecture at Yale University, and he has studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Art Students’ League, Syracuse University, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been in many solo and group exhibitions including at the Pratt Institute, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, Mattatuck Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Sculpture Fields Sculpture Park. His sculpture is featured in over thirty museums and institutional collections and has won multiple awards, most recently the Thomas R. Proctor Prize for Sculpture from the National Academy of Design.
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