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Statement
   
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Abe Miyuke

Vitre, France

  Chain of …2       

Brad Allen

Missoula, MT


Cattlechute

Sugar Dispenser

   

Annette Bellamy

  Working Hands      

Carl Billingsley

Tucumcari, NM

  Rain on Tucumcari Mountain  

Rain on Tucumcari Mountain is a direct result of my friendship with and many visits to Ojars Feldbergs Sculpture Park in Latvia...

Hopi Breton

Oakland, CA    

        Cupcakes  

My work operates as
both a refuge and a filter for my experiences, emotions, and personal inquiry...

 

Michael Brohman

Denver, CO

 

Michael, Michael,

Let down thy Hair

     

Jim Buonaccorsi

Watkinsville, GA

  Fodder                 

Andrew John Cecil

Albuquerque, NM

Dam    

Joyce Michelina Centofanti

Alamosa, CO

Indulgent Perspectives      

J.C. Christy

Birmingham, AL

  Southern Fried Justice    

Stephen Coles

Shaftsbury, Dorset, UK

 

Stag 2  &

Croeso Ogun

 

This is a relief that came about through a current body of work where I have been studying various ancient spiritual beliefs relating to iron and fire... 

 

Michael Cottrell

Jacksonville, FL

  Mythos Series: Djinn    I see my artwork as a type of personal evolution, each piece and concept leading
to the next as I constantly learn and grow as an artist, and as a person...
 

Jim Crane

Corrales, NM

 

Thinking About Henry,

Barbara and Don

     

Sam Eade

Bristol, UK

  Untitled   The atmosphere around
the furnace and the cupola itself carry a strong aesthetic quality for me, something that is felt and experienced...
 

Elizabeth Evans

Carmarthen
S Wales

 

   

Cwtch   

Balloon

 

As I was born and raised in Wales I am familiar with the idea of the lovespoon, a gift given to a loved one as a sign of affection and commitment, traditionally made of wood...

 

Weimin Fan

Beijing, China

  Pretty Silhouette  

The purpose of this sculpture is to show the beauty of woman’s body, full of gentleness, stillness and elegance. 

 

Tobias Flores

Hays, KS

  Glupola  

This work/performance is a play on the labor intensive, industrial process, of cupola iron making and the very handy, craft adhesive called hot glue..

 

Tom Fox

San Diego, CA

  Slaghole Ironworks  

This sculpture is one in a series of works that investigate the practice of casting iron... 

 

Ayato Fujiwara

Tochigi-ken, Japan

  A Cut Flower    

I live like a cut flower.

 

Andy Griffiths

Carmarthen, S. Wales, UK

  Iron   This whole iron casting idea is still quite new to me, up until now I’ve been treating it like bronze and trying to get away with thin elements...  

Justine Johnson Griffiths

Carmarthanshire, UK

  Anadiu  

“Anadlu” is the Welsh word for breathing...

 

Mark Guilbeau

Denver, CO

  WMD    The Deluge Series began in January of 2000...  

John Hachmeister

Lawrence, KS

  Fast, Short, End   Liquid metal is so seductive and iron more so than any other.  The color, fluidity,

reactivity, when it hits the air, never ceases to enchant the eye.  We love it...
 

Chie Hanada

Tokyo, Japan

 

  In the bathroom      

Cynthia Handel

Oakland, CA

  Lung Spaces      

Remy Hanemann

Birmingham, AL

  Katrina Condo    

 

 

James Hayes

Crawford College of

Art and Design

Cork, Ireland

 

 

West and East

 

My work attempts to explore the relationship between the “permanent” and “impermanent”...

 
Paul Higham Thermapolitan Sequencer  

My work explores commonalities in function and form
found in all emergent systems;...

 

Timothy S. Hooton 

Albuquerque, NM 

    

Untitled #18          

Patricia Hulin 

San Jose, CA  

  A’ La Fembot   

From a group of cast
iron sculptures now
in progress. called
"Weeble Wobbles" ...

 

Daniel W. Hunt

Wamego, KS

  Toll of Disregarded Circumstances           

Ginny Hutchison

Aberdeenshire, Scotland

 

Scotch Pad    

Stephanie E.G. Irwin

Sedalia, MO

 

Prometheus      

Meredith Jack

Houston, TX

  Untitled#4   Art production seems to come from two main sources, ideas and processes; sometimes they combine.  This piece, “Untitled #4”, initially came about because “I could do it”, not because I had an “o’er arching idea”...  

D’jean Jawrunner

Tucumcari, NM

Lizard  
   
 

Janev Jelena

Ilmenau, Germany

  Diaologue
     
 Erik Johnson

Charleston, SC

  Sloss Dream          

Mary Johnson 

Shoreview, MN

  Rough and Holy  

I collaborate with my dogs.  I use their destroyed dog toys as the source materials for my metal casting, wearable art, and wall and floor installations... 

 

Eden Jolly

Inverness, Scotland

 

  The ‘P’ in compromise   This is a cast of the central point beneath my most advanced (directional) foot upon which I stood on a rocky outcrop atop “The Buck”, in rural Aberdeenshire...  

David Jones

Laurie, WY

 

  Scout     Scout is the second in a series of four larger scaled “curios” that I have been working on to include in my most current body of work...   

Aaron Juarros

Chaplin, CT

 

  Sipapu     

Rian Kerrane

Denver, CO

 

  Blushing Targets  

role or rôle n
1. an individual part in a play, movie, opera, or other performance played by an actor, singer, or other performer

 

Noah Kirby

St. Louis, MO

 

  Gimmie  

I have always wrestled with casting as a process concerned mainly with representation and reproduction, as I enjoy and believe in the labor while resisting representational imagery...

 

Elizabeth Kronfield

Holley, NY

Line      

Adam L. Labe

Sheboygan, WI

  An Iron   As an object maker I continue
to explore the relationship between
craft, fine art, and industrial design...
 

Coral Lambert

Brooklyn, NY

 

Essence of all the galaxies   that are known or that are
thought to exist in space

  My work and how it is made make reference to natural phenomena of growth and form such as that found in the natural world...  

Harry Leippe

Las Vegas, NM

  East Window         

Alex Main

Joyce Gunn Cairns

 

This is a work in progress, a portrait of the Scottish artist Joyce Gunn Cairns by Black Isle based Alex Main. Alex has work in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and many other collections ans is increasingly using cast iron in his portraiture, he is also an undoubted gentleman and scholar.  

 

Andrew Marsh

Louisville, KY

           

PainTrophy 8      Living with pain has had an unholy influence over all aspects of my life and my work...  

Satoko Matsumoto

Tokyo, Japan

  The Mountains    

Joe McCreary 

Birmingham, AL

  Monkey Hammers    

LeeAnn Mitchell

Watkinsville, GA

  Bon Voyage      

Sachiko Nakazawa

Tokyo, Japan

  Feet    

Mary Neubauer

Chandler, AZ

  Involute      

Yuji Nishijima  

Kanagawa-ken, Japan          

  Persona    

Arabella Nock

S. Wales, UK

 

Fallen Flight

Puff

Modern Love

  I am only beginning my journey into iron casting and am enjoying its possibilities,  

Gondo Noriaki

Milano, Italy

 

  Dio ha Creato l’huomo…      

Akemi Ohtsuka

Saitama City, Japan

  One of a Universe  

This is an effigy of my daughter...

 

Alison Ouellette-Kirby

& John Cross

St. Charles, MO

 

Common Objects       
                                                            Rendered Useless
                                                            Exhibit C Artichoke

and Knife on table
  My work is an attempt to isolate experiences that are not exclusive to myself.  I attempt to create intimate relationships and interaction by asking the viewer to participate in the definition and realization of its meaning.  

Sean Pace

Asheville, NC

  Pull My Finger   I’m a multimedia sculptor residing in Asheville, North Carolina.  I work to create composite sculpture that incorporate found objects, fabricated, and cast components that function.  

Wayne E. Potraz

Minneapolis, MN

 

  Totem Vessel: Maymaygwishaway    

Jane Powers

Minneapolis, MN

 

  Replicating Self      

Clifton Prokop  

La Plume, PA  

        

  Iron Vessel      

Dana Provence

Alamosa. CO

  Age of Man      

Tamsie Ringler

Sandy, OR

  Zona Pellucida      

Kevin Rutherford

Carrollton, GA

  Smelting 1, Smelting2, Smelting3      

Hazel Sawyer

Carmarthen, S. Wales, UK

 

  Love Spoon       Since experiencing the excitement of pouring iron and the fantastic time I had at the Ironbridge Conference, lots of possibilities have opened up within my creative practice, and I am looking forward to the experience of the Iron Tribe in New Mexico.  

Sumiko Shiina

Sapporo, Japan

  Tsukikage            

Satoshi Takehana 

Tokyo, Japan     

  A Garden of a Forest      A forest has very comfortable air and pleasure. Therefore I want to make the sense that I came across a work.
 

Christopher Thomson

Ribera, NM

  Primordial Conversation   I had wanted to sand-cast a ring of tetrahedra, but table-sawing the wood patterns seemed too difficult...  

Durant Thomson

University, MS

  The wheel and the Horn      

Lynn Todaro/ Patricia Hulin

San Jose, CA

  Stanislaus Suite  

I enjoy casting metal,
hot metal. partly because of the beauty of the fire and the flowing hot metal...

 

Jennifer Torres

 

  Bone of Contention  

...Laqueur IN THE 1970S the term "Finlandization" entered the political lexicon and became for a while a major bone of contention. The term referred to the special relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union: it meant, very briefly, appeasement...

 

Julie A. Ward

Birmingham, AL

  Pricked Diptych      

Alair Wells

Seattle, WA

  An Apple a Day    

Matt Wicker

Holley, NY

  Oh Happy Day      

Johnny P. Williams

Eutaw, AL

  Instrument for Automatic Drawing      

Yusuke Yoshi

Matumicho Kanagawaku,

Japan

  Sculpture    

Dota Yoshitaka

Tokyo, Japan

  Untitled