David Smalley
Website:  dsculps.com

My work is about motion – implied, actual (kinetic), or potential. I bring a lifetime of gesture drawing, figure drawing and studies of wind and water; I am a sculler as well as a sculptor.

For most of my career I have worked in metal, finding in it the tensile strength to draw out forms into slender elements. Lately I have been working in laminated wood, a material similarly strong and very light, and immensely satisfying to manipulate.  This change in materials has resulted in a focus on indoor works of varying sizes. The delicate wood forms are responsive to the smallest change in air currents, resulting in works that move, sway, and dance in almost any setting.

I am led to interesting questions and into a curious place -- somewhere between drawing and sculpture. How ephemeral can a sculpture be? How delicate? And where to go next?


Circle Dance
Sitka
Beacon
Fandango
Shadow Crossing