Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Naumanis an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMultimedia Artist
Date of Birth6 December 1941
CountryUnited States of America
interesting different kind
It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.
knowing steps way
And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
humor people time
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
american-sculptor dirty ground keeping letting lie tools
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
american-sculptor building case corner fence hang needed ranch stretch
In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.