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Bruce Beasley - Monumental

Peninsula Museum of Art

June 15-August 31, 2008

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Bruce Beasley's work is unmistakably anchored in the tradition of Constructivism, and his works created since the 1970s strongly demonstrate this. Clear relationships and parallels to the fundamentals mandated by Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner in their "Realist Manifesto" for a new, contemporary sculpture published in Moscow on August 5, 1920 can be drawn. It is stated there, "The plumb bob in hand, eyes as straight as a ruler, in a spirit taut as a circle... we craft our works as the universe does, like the engineer constructs bridges and like a mathematician calculates his formula for a planetary orbit."

When summarizing Bruce Beasley's sculptural work, one can establish that he turns to new materials and new problems of form in cycles of approximately 10 years. In the 1960s, he worked with welded and cast iron, cast aluminum and industrial scrap; in the 1970s he worked with transparent materials; in the 1980s he constructed space- enveloping steel sculptures based on hexagonal forms that were then replaced with his cubical bronze sculptures developed with the aid of his computer. The latter sculptures are currently on view. These changes are always the result of an intellectual evolution and not just the result of a new formal point of origin or the challenge of new materials. One thing remains consistent: his works are the result of a methodological approach reminiscent of the approach of Abstract Expressionist artists, even if he has used the aid of a computer to conceptualize them. They also partake of the formal tradition of Constructivism and related artistic movements.

The origin of his sculptural form is often found in nature, be it crystalline shapes, fossils or bones he studies in order to understand how individual parts fit together to make a whole. By the same token, he constructs his sculptures out of individual elements in such a way that the whole appears unified.

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  Dates:
  June 15-August 31, 2008

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  Artist reception 6/15: 1pm-4pm
  
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  Peninsula Museum of Art

  10 Twin Pines Lane Belmont, CA 94002

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