Craig French, Mixed
Craig French is a pop-Constructivist sculptor, whose brilliant, lyrical wall pieces have gained an international audience. Cast resins, acrylics, sheet metals, rare woods, and glass are laboriously cut, lathed, and polished into fanciful shapes, then joined and intertwined into arresting color-texture combinations.
These multi-media works rest, dance, play, spin and sing to create an abstract language inflected by many accents. Yet they all are unified by overarching themes of aesthetic optimism, joy and a duty to fine craftsmanship.
French is a pioneering "Constructivist" who seeks to elevate the abstract language of the machine age into art works of deep social and spiritual significance. He believes his art issues from "the beauty and rhythm and flow of poetry." His primary aim, he says, "is to further blur the boundary between painting and sculpture."
