my love for you.

Andy Vogt.

10.05.10 post update - I posted a little too soon! Andy shared this with me via email last night and I thought I would add it to the post:

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The wood I use comes from the demolition of old houses in San Francisco, a city with no shortage of victorian-era wooden structures ~ For the most part the wood is old growth Douglas Fir that was harvested roughly 100 years ago and has been in suspended animation under plaster, inside an old wall until i find it in a dumpsters outside a construction site.--  I use it as is, with respect to color and texture.  I see the work is both drawing and sculpture.

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I met Andy Vogt earlier in the summer and chatted briefly with him about his work. I was excited when he sent me over images last week to share with you. I love how he takes splintered almost painful looking wood and creates such beauty and control in his shapes.

Erik Otto: Tomorrow is Never Promised.

A few pics of Erik Otto's show Tomorrow is Never is Promised opened at White Walls this past Saturday, September 11th. Erik's show runs through October 2nd, 2010.

Richard Pearse's Progress.

Back in June I posted Richard Pearse's work under Reader Love. I loved his use of color and found wood. He's been busy this summer and he's kept in touch sending over detail images of his latest work in progress. He'll be sharing more of it as soon as he's ready.

Phil McGaughy.

Phil McGaughy's wood sculptures kind of blow my mind. The intricacy is pretty impressive to say the least. Here Phil talks about the process behind his work and the inspiration that fuels it:

"My use of organic wood combined with hobby shop wood construction is intended to call attention to two seemingly opposed forces – human nature, and natures limitations. The abstract milled wood exoskeletons should be considered as both viral predators consuming, and prosthetic appendages reinventing, the found organic forms. My intent is to have the two forms tangoing around each other in a kind of symbiotic tension.

The first couple of pieces were made in 2006, one yr. after my sculptor boss/mentor Louis Pearson passed away. He spent his final 5 yrs. or so feverishly blazing trails (literally, like with a shovel and an pickaxe) through the Montara mountain wilderness (near devils slide) He considered the trails he sculpted into the mountain some of his best artworks, I agreed with him! He loved Manzanita wood, and for the first year of my working on these I used only Manzanita wood. I still use it. In a funny way, I still consider these pieces to sort of be like a wink and a nod to Lou."