Title: "Dark Gate"
Artist: Jack T. Fifield
Price: $3,200
Dimensions: 6-1/2"H x 13"diameter
Materials: Big leaf maple and Indian rosewood
Other info: Wood-turner, Jack Fifield, creates delicate sculptures in an array of sizes. The graceful shapes of the vessels enhance the inherent qualities of each piece of wood.
Fifield's pieces are turned green, fresh from the woods, and still wet. They dry as he turns them and continue to dry slowly off the lathe, creating an extremely smooth surface with the natural ripples and warps that is characteristic of wood.
In discussing his craft, Fifield acknowledges that his training as a dentist - where a remarkable amount of time was spent learning to sculpt in composite materials, metal and lost wax casting - provided the skills necessary for wood turning.
"Every step in the process is an adventure. Finding that twisted or burly old tree blown down or left by loggers is like receiving a wrapped present just knowing there's something great inside." - Jack Fifield
Fifield received his Doctorate in Dentistry from the University of Minnesota. He has exhibited extensively throughout the Eastern United States including the Smithsonian Craft Show (DC). To see additional, available works by this artist, please click on this link.
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Title: "Wheel Series: North, No. 1"
Artist: Rodger Jacobs
Price: $1,900 - SOLD
Dimensions: 17"H x 17"W x 7-1/4"D
Materials: Bleached birch
Other info: Experience and imagination are only part of what woodworker Rodger Jacobs calls on to create his art. Whether functional or decorative, the sculptures are also dictated by the wood itself.
"The commitment I have to woodturning is complete. I find pleasure and freedom with a dash of danger in turning. More and more, pure sculpture seems to be finding its way into my life. I have developed my techniques from the forerunners of modern turning. I believe in using the wood that I find locally. It is part of the fun to tramp through the woods looking for distressed, burled, spalted, or even plain trees. It is hard work getting the logs and pieces out of the woods. It's worth it though. Every time I open a piece it's like Christmas, and every piece is different." - Rodger Jacobs
Jacobs' work has been exhibited at the Hickory Museum of Art (NC), the Arizona Art Museum and the Gibbes Museum of Art (SC). His sculptures can be found in collections including Asheville Art Museum (NC), National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum (IL) and Grandfather Mountain Nature Museum (NC).
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Title: "Midnight Rider"
Artist: Stoney Lamar
Price: $14,000 - SOLD
Dimensions: 71"H x 24"W x 12"D
Materials: Ash and steel; burned and painted
Other info: Few who treat the lathe as a carving tool do so with the skill of Stoney Lamar. His sculptures explore the natural movement, balance and tension of asymmetrical wood forms combined with steel accents.
"The work begins as a relationship I have established with a particular piece of wood and how its characteristics will interplay with my intentions and my emerging technical and conceptual vocabulary. As I adjust the work�s axis and continue turning, new challenges and possibilities are constantly presented." - Stoney Lamar
Lamar received his BS degree from Appalachian State University (NC). He has exhibited at Berman Museum of Art (PA), the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Craft Show (DC). His work is in the collections of the High Museum of Art (GA), the Museum of Arts and Design (NY), the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), the Los Angeles County Museum of Craft and Folk Art (CA), the Mint Museum of Craft and Design (NC) and the Huntsville Museum of Art (AL).
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Title: "Green Tower"
Artist: Stoney Lamar
Price: $3,500
Dimensions: 30-3/4"H x 7"W x 7"D
Materials: Ash, milk paint, steel
Other info: "I am interested in the possibilities of eliciting an emotional response to my work. Using multiple axis techniques allows me to sculpt asymmetrical forms on the lathe, creating figural and architectural compositions influenced by both process and material and to explore the power of a single line in representing gesture, attitude, and emotion. The natural tensions produced between the steel and wood has enhanced the narrative opportunities." - Stoney Lamar
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Title: "Once the Machinery Has Started"
Artist: Daniel Marinelli
Price: $4,750
Dimensions: 24"H x 18"W x 18"D
Materials: Beech, cherry, walnut, steel, waxed linen thread & milk paint
Other info: A striking mix of wood, paper and fabricated steel form the sculptures by Daniel Marinelli.
"Since my start as a graduate student, I have almost exclusively used wood or steel, or a combination of both, in all my pieces. Steel brings out the warm soft glow and vibrancy of wood. Wood compliments the cold hardness and visual weighty qualities of steel. I appreciate this combination of natural characteristics of wood with the mechanical and industrial traits of the steel. I have recently begun to incorporate bookbinding elements with these other materials. I enjoy the process as much as the finished piece. If the process is not enjoyed, the work and the workmanship become laboriously tedious and tiresome. To create with the direct contact and intimate interaction of my hands with my materials gives me great satisfaction." - Daniel Marinelli
Marinelli received his MFA degree from East Tennessee State University and is currently a resident at the Penland School of Crafts (NC). He has taught and exhibited extensively throughout the Carolinas and Tennessee including the Reese Museum (TN).
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Title: "Reveal III"
Artist: George Peterson
Price: $4,200 - SOLD
Dimensions: 16"H x 53"W x 2"D
Materials: Carved and painted oak
Other info: Please note: This piece can be mounted vertically or horizontally.
"For me, the adventure and challenge of sculpting lies in focusing on the natural tension and drama I find in the wood, and in contrasting and complimenting that drama with my expressive mark as an artist. The pieces are formed from whole logs using chainsaws, hammers, chisels, fire, axes, anything. The raw sculptures are then placed in a kiln so the wood can stabilize. Often during the drying process the tensions in the wood will cause a piece to warp and crack giving the forms an element of spontaneity that I could never contrive. After the wood is dry, I then refine each piece through careful and deliberate study. I paint, polish, trim, sew, join and repeat if necessary, until the work is resolved." - George Peterson
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Title: Assorted from the "Lingo" Series
Artist: George Peterson
Price: $500 each
Dimensions: 30"H x 8"W (each)
Materials: Recycled skateboards
Other info: "My aim with the skateboard series is celebrate the iconic nature of the skateboard as well as the creative/destructive energy that goes into forming the raw material I start with. As a person who obsesses about all the different wood species, I have come to see these broken and banged up pieces of plywood as a type of exotic material. Not because it's rare or expensive, but that it's been processed in very unique and specific ways. Creatively speaking, this series owes a lot to the culture and industry of skateboarding. Like making art, skateboarding is a very creative and personal outlet. It is also inherently destructive; boards get worn down, cracked and broken. It is a subtle and unintended type of wood sculpting. This work is about layers: it speaks of the utility and beauty of wood, the culture and byproducts of our modern world and the visual/textural language I've developed through my work as a! n artist. I give a special thanks to all the local skaters who donated boards for this project." - George Peterson
To see a selection of available pieces from "Lingo" Series, please click on this link.
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Title: "Circle"
Artist: George Peterson
Price: $3,200
Dimensions: 34"H x 38"W
Materials: Carved and painted cherry, steel
Other info: "I take an intuitive and spontaneous approach to my work. The action of shaping the wood with my hand-held tools is satisfying in a very basic way. As I work the wood, I collaborate with it; the finished piece illustrates that interplay." - George Peterson.
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Title: "A Diet High in Iron" & "We Are What We Eat"
Artist: David Sengel
Price: $2,700 (pair)
Dimensions: 26"H x 30"W x 15"D & 23"H x 18"W x 16"D
Materials: Apple and maple wood, found and formed steel
Other info: "Some of my earliest work involved wood and found objects. Returning to that mixed media format recently has been rewarding and fun. As a part-time farmer these days, I have come back to a point of valuing the more functional aspects of beauty, be it with vegetables or art."
Sengel studied at Hollins College (VA), Davidson College (NC) and the Arrowmont School of Crafts (TN). His work is in the collections of the Museum of Arts & Design (NY), the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American At Museum (DC), the Contemporary Museum (HI), Decorative Arts Museum (AR), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MN) and Yale University (CT).
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Title: "Periodic Table Workout"
Artist: David Sengel
Price: $5,200 - SOLD
Dimensions: 72"H x 17"W x 14"D
Materials: Buckeye burl, walnut & steel
Other info: Gnarled wood and rusty metal are transformed into imposing, organic sculptures by artist David Sengel.
"Some of my earliest work involved wood and found objects. Returning to that mixed media format recently has been rewarding and fun. As a part-time farmer these days, I have come back to a point of valuing the more functional aspects of beauty, be it with vegetables or art."
Sengel studied at Hollins College (VA), Davidson College (NC) and the Arrowmont School of Crafts (TN). His work is in the collections of the Museum of Arts & Design (NY), the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American At Museum (DC), the Contemporary Museum (HI), Decorative Arts Museum (AR), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MN) and Yale University (CT).
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