FORM FOLLOWS FANTASY:

Sculpture and Drawings by LAWRENCE FANE

Catalyzed by the drawings of early Renaissance artist-engineer Mariano Taccola, Lawrence Fane has said that, it is in his sculpture of the last decade that he has found his true work.

It is a work so deeply rooted in imagination that its hard-hewn physicality, at first, simply astonishes. As the viewer’s imagination grasps for the familiar, these machines never-before-given-form suggest by their sure and knowing lines an everyday utility that one might almost discover, given time.

Others, no less robust, express in an architecture otherworldly—yet still nearly familiar—a precise and delicate inter-dependability among parts and materials, one whose essential and enduring bond seems as emotional as it does physical.

Here medieval creations in mahogany’s waxy red seem to stand alone against the end of time, just as intricate dual constructions in butternut’s bruised pale express in touching symbiosis the impermanent physics of what is good, what is true.

LAWRENCE FANE’s work is collected in museums throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Italy, and London, He has exhibited as widely.

--R Skogsberg

Recent show at BigTown Gallery, Rochester, VT