SCULPTURE AT THE LIONHEART GALLERY
THE LIONHEART GALLERY
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BARBARA OWEN Paper Sculpture
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DAVID HUTCHINSON Words Are Elves Translations
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DON BRACKEN Earth Sculpture
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JOHN BONSIGNORE Toe Dancers Walks of Life Quake Series DREW KLOTZ Kinetic Sculpture
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LAWRENCE MCGARVEY Open Mind
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PRICELIST
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THE LIONHEART GALLERY
The Lionheart Gallery in Pound Ridge, New York is located in Northern Westchester’s Hudson River Valley on the border of Stamford and New Canaan, Connecticut. The Lionheart Galley has beautifully lush grounds with a pond and a aviary garden. Gallery Director Susan Grissom curates each exhibit from work chosen from the artists’ studio. We have eight exhibitions a year. Our inventory consists of painting, printmaking, fine art photography,Mixed Media and Sculpture. We also have a small works library with affordable works of art, art books, and art gifts. Our hours are Wednesday thru Saturday from 11 to 5 and Sunday from 12 to 5. and by appointment. Those traveling a distance would be advised to call ahead, as the gallery is occasionally closed for private viewings with collectors. Group visits welcomed with notice.
SCULPTURE AT THE LIONHEART GALLERY The Lionheart Gallery represents a number of artists who create stunning sculptural works, both indoor and outdoor. Some of the sculptures reflect aspects of nature, interacting with landscape and the elements to create seamless blend of art and nature. Others are bold and abstract, bringing color and whimsy to any room. Read on to explore in greater detail the work of these artists. Barbara Owen starts with hand-painted paper and cuts out shapes, leaving them whole or retaining a simple boundary, before assembling them into painting-like compositions, the end result being highly colorful and vibrant abstractions, reminiscent of lace or crochet-work but without any recognizable or repeating patterns. In these she experiments with depth, superposition and inviting the viewer to examine the subtle boundary between flat work and the third dimension. Using colors as code, David Hutchinson creates bold wall sculptures that convey thoughts and ideas from philosophical texts, often using text and phrases from Jean Genet works. In the chromatic portions of his work, each block of color is a visual stand-in for a letter of the English alphabet (a = aquamarine, b = blue, c = crimson, d = dove gray, e = emerald, and so on). The sculpture can be “read” through this chromatic alphabet based on English color names.
Vines, branches and bark are a way to make sculpture that Don Bracken can fully inhabit. His use of vines as a material and a medium began as an element in the earth paintings and has evolved into its own approach, opening up the process of creating works that resemble calligraphy in space. John Bonsignore’s sculpture begins with a broad concept: a place, person, animal or emotion. After paring away the inconsequential details, what remains is the unique core of his subject. The unprocessed forms of stone and stainless steel are his primary mediums; like the ideas he is interpreting, they are clean and uncomplicated. Drew Klotz’s kinetic sculpture is made of aluminum and stainless steel and is mounted on a 5’ stand. Horizontal frames mount aerodynamic shapes with sensitive bearings that interact with the gentlest of breezes and wind currents to provide ever-changing rhythmic and wave-like patterns. As the kinetic sculpture revolves and dances with the wind, it choreographs it’s own enchanting aerial ballet.
Please contact The Lionheart Gallery with any questions at 914.764.8689. The gallery’s website is www.thelionheartgallery.com. Susan D. Grissom, Gallery Director
BARBARA OWEN
Barbara Owen is a contemporary painter and mixed media artist. Her work has been featured in numerous curated and juried exhibitions from the Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, The Arts Center in Troy, NY, the University Art Gallery of Mass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, RI, and the Lionheart Gallery, Pound Ridge, NY. Owen graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor of Arts degree as an Interdivisional Major in Sculpture and Poetry. She wrote her creative thesis under the direction of the poet Ben Belitt, studied sculpture with Brower Hatcher and Lee Tribe as well as studied painting with the painter/art critic Sidney Tillim. Upon graduation she went on to apprentice with the sculptor Brower Hatcher for four years. It was during those years, and a move to New York City, that she turned to painting. Starting with hand-painted paper I cut out shapes, leaving them whole or retaining a simple boundary, before assembling them into painting-like compositions, the end result being highly colorful and vibrant abstractions, reminiscent of lace or crochet-work but without any recognizable or repeating patterns. In these I am experimenting with depth, superposition and inviting the viewer to examine the subtle boundary between flat work and the third dimension. Historically I have been an artist who has worked on pieces in the studio alone and shown them only after months, even years of scrutiny before the public ever sees them. Now I find my self coming to the gallery with my folders of cut paper and some idea of what I want to do. Keeping in mind that I have several hours, maybe that whole day, and with the curiosity of what I will in the end create in that space. Although these works are prepared in the studio, their final configuration only takes place as they are assembled on the wall. The installed piece combines process and object, it presents the inseparability of knowing/not knowing. The installation is the result, sum and residue of action, time and space. My work has evolved through the act of process: one piece leads to another. For me the most effective way to make art, is to find a methodology; which allows the painterly process, once set into motion to proceed as a natural force.
PAPER SCULPTURE BARBARA OWEN
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Miss Havisham, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper 30” x 34”
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Puff of Red, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper 35” x 29”
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Rosy Pink Puffs (5 Puffs), 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper Size Variable
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Wisp, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper Size Variable
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Puff of Blue, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper 29” x 20”
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Calligraphy, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper 52” x 28”
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Two Ideas, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper 40” x 32”
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Cascade of Clouds, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper 26” x 21”
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Palm, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper 15” x 17”
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Twist, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper 18” x 14”
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Paper Wall Sculpture I, 2014 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper Size Variable
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Paper Wall Sculpture II, 2014 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper Size Variable
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Paper Wall Sculpture III, 2017 Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper Size Variable
DAVID HUTCHINSON
As a concept based abstract artist, my work investigates the nature of communication and the meaning of visual presentation. Over the years I have developed a few devices that are consistently employed: the use of over-writing (the transcription drawings), a ‘chromatic alphabet’, and an ‘achromatic alphabet’. The way in which these tools are used vary, depending on the work’s emphasis or intended message. The work may change slightly from project to project, but the underpinnings remains constant. In reading the texts of Jean Genet, I am continuously amazed at how he utilized formally evocative language to entice his readers into a complex world of amoral imagery, using the persuasive power of language to seduce his audience into the world’s dark underbelly. Christian painters have been doing something similarly for multiple generations by visually translating challenging, inhuman stories into graphic representations with incredible magnetic pull. For nearly two decades, I have been trying to push this phenomenon by emphasizing modernism’s push-and-pull between presentation and content. A large part of the body of my work has been working with the texts and life of Jean Genet to examine how the nature of formalism can absorb and subsume questionable morality by willfully re-presenting the material in a different artistic vocabulary.
WORDS ARE ELVES DAVID HUTCHINSON
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Words Are Elves, 2016 Binder Board, Cloth, Acrylic and Wood 4’ 11.025” x 5’ 6.025”
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The Aesthete is an Oblate, 2016 Binder Board, Cloth, Acrylic and Wood 6” x 8’4”
TRANSLATIONS
DAVID HUTCHINSON
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Love, Amor and Betrayal, 2004 Mirror, Fabric, Binder Board, Wood, Acrylic and Glue
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Querelle’s Ever Expanding Circle, 2004 Mirror, Fabric, Binder Board, Wood, Acrylic and Glue
DON BRACKEN
Donald Bracken, a nationally known award-winning artist, is a native San Franciscan and UC Berkeley graduate who has lived in West Cornwall, Connecticut, for 34 years. Painting and drawing have always been his primary creative focus. One of his greatest visual in uences has been the windows of the World Trade Center, where he had an artist in residency fellowship in 1997; and he has used that motif as a repeated shape or format idea in many of his works since. In 2007, a series of paintings of deserted farms in the Connecticut River valley became not just about the earth but of the earth when he began to paint the landscapes using soil from the farms he was painting. The earth-polymer material he has developed has a dynamic, visceral, and visual quality that, as it dries and cracks, allows the processes of nature a role in the uid, changing canvases they form together. Much of his focus has continu-ed to shift toward celebrating earth materials, among them leaves, vines, and beaver sticks, as voices unto themselves. As he has become ever more inspired by alternative materials and different ways of looking at nature, form, and structure, his means of expression, even when sculptural, are still essentially drawing and painting. Sculptural elements are a way to make 3-D paintings that he can fully inhabit. His use of vines as a material and a medium began as an element in the earth paintings and has evolved into its own approach, opening up the process of creating works that resemble calligraphy in space.
EARTH SCULPTURE DON BRACKEN
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Frozen Moment in Bark No. 3, 2014 Mountain Laurel Root, Polymer and Wire 64” x 36”
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Survival of the Fittest, 2014 Jacaranda Pods, Baptisia Pods and Wire 36” x 24”
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Frozen Moment, 2014 Leaves, Polymer and Wire 60” x 36”
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Mountain Laurel Hoop, 2014 Barrel Stave, Mountain Laurel Branches and Yarn 32� diameter
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Vines in Hoop, 2014 Vines and Barrel Stave 24� diameter
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Orb in the Rough, 2014 Green Glass Ball, String, Vines and Wire 36” x 30”
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Framed Vines, 2014 Wood, Vines and Wire 35” x 48”
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Untitled (Branches in Hoop), 2017 Branches and Wire Hoop Size Variable
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Vestiges of Occupation, 2017 Branches and Wire 120” x 48” x 72”
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Looking East, 2017 Polymerized Clay on Panels 80” x 162”
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Under a Shattering Sky, 2017 Polymerized Clay on Panels 80” x 162”
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Untitled Sculpture, 2017 Branches, Bark and Wire Size Variable
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Damascus Road, 2017 Mixed media 18” x 52” x 9”
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Sculpture Room
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Invasive Species from My Baby, 2015 Beaver Sticks, Bittersweet Maple Vine and Wire 70” x 80”
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Calligraphy in Space, 2012 Vines, Wire and Rebar 96” x 84” x 84”
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Suspended Relationship, 2017 Wood, Stones, Wire and Rebar Size Variable
JOHN BONSIGNORE
John BonSignore, a New England sculptor, has been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally. He received a BS in Industrial Design and a MA in Sculpture and Education, from the University of Bridgeport/Shintaro Akatsu School of Design. John also studied Ceramics/Sculpture at Arizona State University. The design of his sculpture begins with a broad concept: a place, person, animal or emotion. After paring away the inconsequential details, what remains is the unique core of his subject. The unprocessed forms of stone and stainless steel are his primary mediums; like the ideas he is interpreting, they are clean and uncomplicated. The process is the same throughout his work; to capture that singular core that makes any place, feeling or living thing, what it is. His sculptures become the physical representations of the essence of his subject.
TOE DANCERS
JOHN BONSIGNORE
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Toe Dancers: Chulan and Seiko in the garden, 2016
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Toe Dancer Chulan, 2016 Stainless Steel 96” x 48”
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Toe Dancer Seiko, 2016 Stainless Steel 96” x 72”
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Toe Dancer 1, 2016 Bronze with Marble Base 21” x 9” x 5”
WALKS OF LIFE
JOHN BONSIGNORE
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Walks of Life Oak, Granite, Leather Bridles, Rope, Synthetic Ber, Aluminum Wire and Bronze 48” x 54” x 29”
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Hurry Up and Wait, 2016 Wood, Granite, Leather Bridle, Rope, Bronze Wire and Woven Blanket 52” x 21.5” x 27”
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Walks of Life No. 1, 2016 Stone and Leather Bridle 31” x 9” x 4.5”
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Walks of Life No. 2, 2016 Stone and Leather Bridle 23.5” x 9” x 4”
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Walks of Life No. 3, 2016 Stone and Leather Bridle 15” x 7” x 4”
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Walks of Life No. 5, 2016 Stone, Leather and Wheels 19.5” x 11.5” x 11”
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Walks of Life No. 4, 2016 Wood and Stone 31.75” x 9.5” x 14.5”
QUAKE SERIES
JOHN BONSIGNORE
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Quake, 2017 Stone, Stainless Steel and Water 60” x 24” x 24”
DREW KLOTZ
Drew Klotz was born in White Plains, NY and grew up in Fairfield County, CT. He graduated with high honors from Cooper Union in 1983. Drew’s early interest in the aerodynamics of flight directed his creative talents to kinetic sculpture best exemplified by his most recent works. Drew’s unique sculptures are in private collections is Connecticut, New York, Texas, Florida, Vermont and Japan. The Greene Art Gallery has represented Drew and his work since 1988. Drew Klotz’s kinetic sculpture is made of aluminum and stainless steel and is mounted on a 5’ stand. Horizontal frames mount aerodynamic shapes with sensitive bearings that interact with the gentlest of breezes and wind currents to provide ever-changing rhythmic and wave-like patterns. As the kinetic sculpture revolves and dances with the wind, it choreographs it’s own enchanting aerial ballet. Painted in brilliant high quality enamels, the sculpture provides a dazzling kaleidoscope of moving color and is a most striking addition to any pool side, estate garden, lakeshore home, oceanside retreat, desert hacienda or other architectural or outdoor landscape.
KINETIC SCULPTURE DREW KLOTZ
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Nova, 2016 Brushed AlumiPaint, Stainless Steel Fasteners and Stone 56” x 24.75”
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Sun Ray, 2016 Brushed AlumiPaint, Stainless Steel Fasteners and Stone 56” x 20”
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AirBlade, 2016 Brushed AlumiPaint, Stainless Steel Fasteners and Stone 78” x 25”
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Twilight Blue, 2016 Brushed AlumiPaint, Stainless Steel Fasteners and Stone 48.25” x 22”
LAWRENCE McGARVEY
OPEN MIND is a monument to the freedom of thought. The sculpture features a human head rising from the earth. A “brain cloud” cut-out of the head allows the forever changing world to become part of the sculptures design. This allows the mind to penetrate through the sculpture and open up to the freedom in the space that it is in. The sculpture is both emptied and filled at the same time. OPEN MIND celebrates the instinct of human thought. Lawrence McGarvey, is an award winning artist living and working in New York, NY. His work has featured “openings” in various materials for the past 25 years.
OPEN MIND
LAWRENCE McGARVEY
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Open Mind, 2017 Aluminum 66” H x 59” W x 41” D
PRICELIST
PRICELIST ACCOMPANYING SCULPTURE CATALOG ALL PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE * BARBARA OWEN PAPER SCULPTURE 1. Miss Havisham, 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, 30” x 34”, $3,000 2. Puff of Red, 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, 35” x 29”, $3,000 3. Rosy Pink Puffs (5 Puffs), 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, Size Variable, $500 each puff 4. Wisp, 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, Size Variable, $4,000 + $500 artist installation 5. Puff of Blue, 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, 29” x 20”, $1,500 6. Calligraphy, 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, 52” x 28”, $1,000 7. Two Ideas, 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, 40” x 32”, $2,500 8. Cascade of Clouds, 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, 26” x 21”, $600 9. Palm, 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, 15” x 17”, $300 10. Twist, 2017, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, 18” x 14”, $500 11. Paper Wall Sculpture I, 2014, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, Size Variable, Price Upon Request 12. Paper Wall Sculpture II, 2014, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, Size Variable, Price Upon Request 13. Paper Wall Sculpture III, 2014, Ink and Acrylic on Cut Paper, Size Variable, Price Upon Request DAVID HUTCHINSON WORDS ARE ELVES 1. Words Are Elves, 2016, Binder Board, Cloth, Acrylic and Wood, 4’ 11.025” x 5’ 6.025”, $10,000 2. The Aesthete is an Oblate, 2016, Binder Board, Cloth, Acrylic and Wood, 6” x 8’4”, $12,000 TRANSLATIONS 1. Love, Armor and Betrayal, 2004, Mirror, Fabric, Binder Board, Wood, Acrylic and Glue, $8,000 2. Querelle’s Ever Expanding Circle, 2004, Mirror, Fabric, Binder Board, Wood, Acrylic and Glue, $4,000 DON BRACKEN EARTH SCULPTURE 1. Frozen Moment in Bark No. 3, 2014, Mountain Laurel Root, Polymer and Wire, 64” x 36”, $3,000 2. Survival of the Fittest, 2014, Jacaranda Pods, Baptisia Pods and Wire, 36” x 24”, $2,400 3. Frozen Moment, 2014, Leaves, Polymer and Wire, 60” x 36, $3,000 4. Mountain Laurel Hoop, 2014, Barrel Stave, Mountain Laurel Branches and Yarn, 32” diameter, $1,800 5. Vines in Hoop, 2014, Vines and Barrel Stave, 24” diameter, $1,800 6. Orb in the Rough, 2014, Green Glass Ball, String, Vines and Wire, 36” x 30”, $3,200 7. Framed Vines, 2014, Wood, Vines and Wire, 35” x 48”, $4,000 8. Untitled (Branches in Hoop), 2017, Branches and Wire Hoop, Size Variable, $1,800 – $3,200 9. Vestiges of Occupation, 2017, Branches and Wire, 120” x 48” x 72”, $3,000 – $8,000
THE LIONHEART GALLERY
PRICELIST ACCOMPANYING SCULPTURE CATALOG ALL PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE * EARTH SCULPTURE (CONTINUED) 10. Looking East, 2017, Polymerized Clay on Panels, 80” x 162”, $45,000 11. Under a Shattering Sky, 2017, Polymerized Clay on Panels, 80” x 162”, $45,000 12. Untitled Sculpture, 2017, Branches, Bark and Wire, Size Variable, $1,800 – $2,400 13. Damascus Road, 2017, Mixed Media, 18” x 52” x 9”, $8,000 14. Invasive Species from My Baby, 2015, Beaver Sticks, Bittersweet Maple Vine and Wire, 70” x 80”, $8,000 15. Calligraphy in Space, 2012, Vines, Wire and Rebar, 96” x 84” x 84”, $8,000 16. Suspended Relationship, 2017, Wood, Stones, Wire and Rebar, Size Variable, $8,000 JOHN BONSIGNORE TOE DANCERS 1. Toe Dancer Chulan, 2016, Stainless Steel, 96” x 48”, $18,000 2. Toe Dancer Seiko, 2016, Stainless Steel, 96” x 72”, $18,000 3. Toe Dancer 1, 2016, Bronze with Marble Base, 21” x 9” x 5”, $5,000 WALKS OF LIFE 1. Walks of Life, 2016, Oak, Granite, Leather Bridles, Rope, Synthetic Ber, Aluminum Wire and Bronze, 48” x 54” x 29”, $13,000 2. Hurry Up and Wait, 2016, Wood, Granite, Leather Bridle, Rope, Bronze Wire and Woven Blanket 52” x 21.5” x 27”, $7,000 3. Walks of Life No. 1, 2016, Stone and Leather Bridle, 31” x 9” x 4.5”, $935 4. Walks of Life No. 2, 2016, Stone and Leather Bridle, 23.5” x 9” x 4”, $935 5. Walks of Life No. 3, 2016, Stone and Leather Bridle, 15” x 7” x 4”, $935 6. Walks of Life No. 5, 2016, Stone, Leather and Wheels, 19.5” x 11.5” x 11”, $1,045 7. Walks of Life No. 4, 2016, Wood and Stone, 31.75” x 9.5” x 14.5”, $1,540 QUAKE SERIES 1. Quake, 2016, Stone, Stainless Steel and Water, 60” x 24” x 25”, $5,000 DREW KLOTZ KINETIC SCULPTURE 1. Nova, 2016, Brushed AlumiPaint, Stainless Steel Fasteners and Stone, 56” x 24.75”, $4,500 2. Sun Ray, 2016, Brushed AlumiPaint, Stainless Steel Fasteners and Stone, 56” x 20”, $2,500 3. AirBlade, 2016, Brushed AlumiPaint, Stainless Steel Fasteners and Stone, 78” x 25”, $3,500 4. Twilight Blue, 2016, Brushed AlumiPaint, Stainless Steel Fasteners and Stone, 48.25” x 22”, $2,500 *NOVA IS AVAILABLE AS A 12’ TALL SCULPTURE WITH CIRCLES THAT HAVE A 3’ DIAMETER* LAWRENCE MCGARVEY
THE LIONHEART GALLERY
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1. Open Mind, 2017, Aluminum, 66” H x 59” W x 41” D, $18,000
This catalogue was published as promotional material for the sculptors at The Lionheart Gallery. Barbara Owen, David Hutchinson, Don Bracken, John BonSignore, Drew Klotz and Lawrence McGarvey All images copyright of the artist. Images of the works are reproduced courtesy of the artist and The Lionheart Gallery. Curated by Susan Grissom Designed by Chelsea Walsh All rights reserved. No part of this book may be produced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission in writing of the copyright holder and The Lionheart Gallery. 914 764 8689 www.thelionheartgallery.com 27 Westchester Avenue, Pound Ridge, NY 10576