When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.
I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting. - Martin Puryear
I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
- Martin Puryear
There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process… - Martin Puryear
There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process…
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. - Martin Puryear
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
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 backward… - Martin Puryear
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 backward…
There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever qua… - Martin Puryear
There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever qua…
The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are. - Martin Puryear
The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. - Martin Puryear
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for me, n… - Martin Puryear
I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for me, n…
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. - Martin Puryear
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.
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