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Indepth Arts News:
"Steel Sculptures by John Kearney"
2002-12-04 until 2001-01-06
Space 12 Gallery
Boston, MA,
USA United States of America
We are pleased to announce the arrival of steel sculptures by John Kearney, now at Space 12 Gallery. Represented in Chicago, New York, the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown and in Wellfleet, we are very honored to be John's Boston gallery. His work is fashioned from car bumpers, not the current plastic variety, but chrome plated steel, and welded into great and seemingly alive creatures; a little horse about to leap, a pig, large and strong, and, noble and kingly as it looks over the gallery, a life-size gorilla. All reside at Space 12.
Now 78 years old, John and his wife Lynn founded the Contemporary Art Workshop 53 years ago in Chicago and have contributed through his art to the life and style of the Windy City. Chicago and environs is gifted with many pieces, noteably the city's Oz Park, wherein live the Tin Man and the bronze Cowardly Lion. John has for 25 years designed the awards for the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, and his work is in the collections of Chicago's Museum of Contemporaray Art, the Detroit Children's Museum, the Chrysler Art Museum in Virginia, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, to name a few.
His work is in the private collections of Norman Mailer, Diane Feinstein, Johnny Carson, Françoise Gilot, Studs Terkel, and Mrs. Robert Motherwell. Profiled by People magazine, a guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and written of by Norman Mailer, John Kearney is an immense talent now amongst us here in the South End.
IMAGE:
John Kearney
Horse
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