Wendell Castle Facing the Unfamiliar

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Edition of 8 plus 4 AP
2017
Aluminum, Mirror

In the 1960s, Wendell Castle was among the first in the U.S. to combine the worlds of sculpture and design, kickstarting his 60-year career at the forefront of contemporary art.

Continually evolving technologies allowed Castle to focus on maximising two qualities in his work: volume and scale. The larger-than-life aluminium frame of Facing the Unfamiliar, spanning nearly two metres, leaps off the wall to envelop the viewer. Castle’s three-dimensional abstraction is rendered in a carved finish, homage to his days of working wood by hand and his taste for tactile surfaces.

Artist Biography

Born in Kansas in 1932, Wendell Castle received two degrees from the University of Kansas, one in industrial design in 1958 and the other in sculpture in 1961. He moved to Rochester, New York to teach at the School for American Crafts and established a permanent studio in the area that is still in operation today. He reinvented himself for nearly six decades.