Tuesday November 4th, 2008

Steve Tobin In The 90s

Steve often uses materials from abandoned industrial sites. The seeds of the pinecone are paddles that churn molten iron at the Bethlehem steel mills. The core is the inner casing of a curved pipe. One of a few narrative works that Steve made in the 90s, the untitled “creature” stands atop a life-size tortoise and […]

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Thursday October 30th, 2008

Oku, Shintani, Finnerty Art

The sculptor Densaburo Oku, or “Dense” or “Mr. Oku”, in his workshop. He had already a distinguished career in Japan before coming to the US twenty years ago. He casts, molds and blows glass and works metal. We have ten fish by Densaburo Oku. The metal combines found and reworked parts, and the glass is […]

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