“StripWorks” – Larry Wood – 11/22 – 12/31 – Philadelphia

Artist Larry Wood presents a unique form of figure drawing this December. Narrow strips of steel are turned into monochromatic imagery depicting the male and female form. An architectural metals fabricator by trade, Wood has married his professional expertise with prior classical training in drawing. Wood has developed a way to draw nuances of curve, shadow and line of the human torso on six and eight foot steel sheets without the use of cameras, brushes, inks or pigments. The imagery is hand-etched into the metal sheets using chemicals and abrasives. The reflective nature of the metal sheets on which they are made gives each image an eerie living quality from the surrounding light reflecting off the art as the viewer moves past. They are light recorded by hand.

StripWorks continues through the 31st.

They’re not portraits, not figures, not photographs, not paintings nor
drawings. Their topic is the indescribable beauty of the natural human form, but
their content is the simple play of light on the nude human body
for which I have an enduring admiration. -Larry Wood

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265 South 10th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tel: 215-627-6250

Published: 21st November 2011

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