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Wendy KlempererRunning Horse2012
2012
$35,000
£26,889.20
€30,895.39
CA$49,231.84
A$55,309.76
CHF 28,899.44
MX$675,081.50
NOK 366,938.42
SEK 345,395.22
DKK 230,552.88
About the Item
The imagery that pervades my work reflects a lifelong fascination with animals. As a child this led to hours of watching, drawing, and imagining. When I began making sculpture as an adult I developed these mental images in three dimensions. Facility is not the objective of my work, but a means to convey an expressive moment. The materials I use retain a raw, immediate quality. Presence and absence reverberate in the sculptures: a network of steel lines builds the form, drawing and re-drawing the animal, creating a tension like the sudden sighting of a wild beast. The surrounding environment penetrates the negative spaces between the lines of metal; the landscape itself is imbedded in the work.To make the sculptures I search scrap yards for pieces that have been discarded and ravaged by life in the yard. Bent and twisted, such pieces contain energy and a potential new life. Industrial refuse is transformed to living form.
I also make small sculptures in wax. Complexity and beautiful accidents can happen. Layered colors and subtle textures build the form and explore the painterly side of sculpture. The surface is a living skin, with varied thicknesses, pierced and broken here and there, allowing glimpses of the interior. I melt white microcrystalline wax in a pot and add paint, pouring out thin sheets to create a palette of different colors. I model the wax at room temperature like clay, building it hollow in colored layers over a simple wire armature. Using a propane torch to heat basic tools (a spoon, a butter knife) I carve and melt the surface and blend colors. I use three dimensional color to work at the intersection of painting and sculpture.When finished, I brush the surface with a clear urethane resin for a hard, protective coating.
Large or small, steel or wax, the sculptures use the body language of animals to express a feeling or state of being, with motion conveying emotion.
- Creator:Wendy Klemperer (1958, American)
- Creation Year:2012
- Dimensions:Height: 86 in (218.44 cm)Width: 120 in (304.8 cm)Depth: 40 in (101.6 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Boca Raton, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU135426409672
Wendy Klemperer
Wendy Klemperer was born in 1958 in Boston, Massachusetts. Raised in Cambridge and Watertown, she was most able to explore her passion for animals and nature during summers spent at her grandmother's country house in New Hampshire. The daughter of two chemists, she grew up with dual interests of art and the biological sciences and received a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Harvard University before deciding to pursue art full-time. Klemperer moved to New York City in 1980 and studied at Pratt Institute. In the early 1990s, she started welding and soon was concentrating on larger outdoor sculpture. Scrap yards and construction sites provide the raw material for her linear, gestural sculpture. Klemperer finds most of the forms already bent into the piles of rebar, her process is largely to select and cut, tack-welding the pre-existing curves into sculptural form. Klemperer lives in Brooklyn, New York and Nelson, New Hampshire. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States.
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