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Carroll Todd
Column IV
2014

About the Item

Fabricated Lies is the title of sculptor Carroll Todd’s latest body of work at David Lusk Gallery Memphis. The title is a playful take on his work – often modeled on life but in the end an illusion. Working in precisely formed and welded sheet bronze, Todd’s sense of child-like wonderment of nature is clearly inserted in Fabricated Lies. The pieces are large, stretching up to nine-feet in height, and tiny – some are less than four-inches. Similarly, some are easily understood for what they are – mouse, factory, tree, and others have almost no clear indication of form or object. In the miniature Dinner three bronze mice sit around a block of cheese, the mice are subtly toned rat-color and the cheese is fresh French yellow. While the totemic pieces are largely abstract, it is hard not to decipher some fantastical elements: at first glance, one appears to be growing like a vine, the other as an insect leg and a third one suggestive of two rabbit ears peeking out at the top. In another group of sculptures Todd scenically explores suburban life. A Monopoly-styled house, lollipop trees and rolling hills makes up one bronze slice. A factory with four smokestacks blowing smoke makes another slice. This work is clearly inspired by modernist (Sheeler, early O’Keeffe and Nadelman) thoughts and design tendencies. In his art practice, Todd begins with a sketch. Once the abstract and figurative elements are established on paper, the work evolves into a small maquette to engineer the effortless bends and folds the bronze assumes on a larger scale. Then he cuts, rolls, bends, forms and welds the sheet bronze. The last step is application of patinas and wax. The result is an elegance and grace rarely apparent in metalwork. Todd’s work is included in public collections at The Arkansas Arts Center, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Little Rock Airport, Rockefeller Center, Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art – Amsterdam. He is a graduate of Memphis College of Art and holds an MFA from Cornell University.

Creator:
Carroll Todd (1954, American)
Creation Year:
2014
Dimensions:
Height: 71 in (180.34 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
Medium:
Bronze
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
TN
Reference Number:
Seller: Estes1stDibs: LU217101882

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