Friday, March 27, 2015


TGIF to the viewers!
 
For this week’s YEOW, we’d like to share with you: 
 
Artist Spotlight: Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is a British born sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist. His artwork is often temporary or ephemeral in nature. He uses organic material such as flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, twigs, thorns, and rock for his art forms. Due to the brevity of Goldsworthy’s art, photography is a crucial role in documenting his work. Goldsworthy uses his bare hands, teeth, and other found tools to produce and arrange materials. Assistant masons are used for larger rock art forms. Goldsworthy currently resides and works out of Scotland, however his sculpture can be found throughout the U.S. and locally at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building.

"Each work grows, stays, decays – integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image. Process and decay are implicit.” –Andy Goldsworthy

"I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole” –Andy Goldsworthy

 

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