Martin Puryear
Martin Puryear
Martin Puryearis an American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in wood and bronze, among other media, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his materials.:54-57...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth23 May 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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The design is a public amenity, designed by a sculptor, which tries to invest a public facility with a bit more poetry than it otherwise might have.
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I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
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The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.
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I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.