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SCULPTOR STEVEN GONTARSKI TO VISIT BRYN MAWR
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| Steven Gontarski, Prophet Zero I, 2002, fiberglass |
Steven Gontarski, whose sculpture blends elements of contemporary youth-culture styles and classical form, will give an artist's talk on Monday, March 29, at 7 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library. The multimedia presentation, sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture, is free and open to the public.
The Philadelphia-born, London-based Gontarski has been exhibiting his work in Europe since he graduated from London's Goldsmiths College with a master's degree in fine art in 1997. His hand-stitched, biomorphic fabric-and-acrylic sculptures were showcased in exhibitions such as Die Young Stay Pretty at London's Institute of Contemporary Art and The New Neurotic Realism at the Saatchi Gallery. Gontarski's work exemplifies a new face of contemporary British art, made by young artists embracing the handmade object and notions of suburban romanticism.
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| Steven Gontarski, Epsilon I, 2003, fiberglass |
Recently, Gontarski has concentrated on cast fiberglass sculptures and works on paper. Investigating the spiritual power of the signs that unify members of a self-defined group, his work employs religious and mythological iconography as well as aspects of popular culture. The high-gloss sheen of his sculptures, which are first modeled in plaster and then cast in fiberglass, calls attention to their echoes of classical form and modernist traditions, but many of these works simultaneously incorporate graffiti. His recent "Prophets" series pierces classical forms with evocative apertures.
Gontarski has exhibited throughout Europe, the U.S. and Japan. His work is included in various public and private art collections including the British Museum, the Peter Norton Collection and the Saatchi Collection.
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