The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
About Martin Puryear
Martin L. Puryearis an Afro-American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in a variety of media, but primarily wood, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his materials.: 54-57 The artist’s Liberty/Liberta exhibition represented the United States at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
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I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
African American artist
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
African American artist
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
African American artist
I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
African American artist
The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.
African American artist
I realized it wasn’t necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
African American artist
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it’s almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.
African American artist
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
African American artist
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
African American artist