Strange new forms have arisen here twisting
tangling twines of metal.
A gashed mass of concrete with guts of steel.
Arched and curving forms.
Sculptors from all over the world gather to
together to work experimentally and complete
freedom to create sculptor that reflects the
resources and technology of Southern California.
Duet was formed from steel plates fabricated
at Bethlehem Steel under the direction of
Robert Murray.
For Murray there is an excitement and challenge
in steel.
You can cut it like butter put it back together
again, melt it, pour it, cast it, or weld
it.
Metal has a life of its own.
Plates of steel are taken for granted I want
to discover what I can make of them with my
hands and with the extension of my hands through
industry.
From three generations of foundry owners came
Kengiro Azuma to create Mu.
Vertical pieces of aluminum provided form
and volume arranged to give a spiritual quality.
My work says Azuma signifies three basic principles:
earth, man and sky.
I am not concerned with the particular but
with the universal there is but one man.
Gabriel Kohn set up his studio in a wood fabricating
ship yard to create Long Beach Contract a
laminated red wood sculpture.
To Kohn wood is a sympathetic material it
breathes it actually moves and changes mood
in response to climatic conditions.
The monumental sculpture of Beljon suggests
the prehistoric stonehenges of the Easter
Island monuments.
What does my work express I do not know says
Beljon but I could write a book about it.
Ideally in the future there will be no distinction
between art and architecture we will live
with art.
Claire Faulkenstein turned to copper tubing
to create “U” as a Set.
With tubing I am able to create activity within
a structure rather than depending on a solidity
of volume we can no longer accept anything
at face value we have to penetrate it for
qualities that reveal themselves through penetration.
