Art: “Zweygardt Sculpture”
Art: “Zweygardt Sculpture”
Opening Reception for artist Glenn Zweygardt this Friday at TCAC
OLEAN - An opening reception will be held this Friday, July 8th for the current Tri-County Arts Council exhibit, "Zweygardt Sculpture” by Glenn Zweygardt from Alfred Station, which is on display through August 13th. The reception will run from 5:30 to 7:30pm at the TCAC building, 110 W. State Street in Olean. The event will be catered by Firefly Bagel with beverages from Four Mile Brewing.
As an artist, Glenn Zweygardt states, "Finding one’s place in a relationship with nature is the theme of my sculpture. While working with materials such as metal and stone, a relationship between nature and myself is formed. Further, I want to tell stories and comment on my collective life experience and my perception of a collective consciousness. Hopefully, these ideas and expressions will enter into human consciousness and the fourth dimension.”
The works of Glenn Zweygardt are simultaneously ancient and contemporary. With his use of diverse materials - cast bronze, glass, iron, marble, stainless steel, stone, and granite - he creates complex media sculptures that exemplify a master of the three-dimensional form. Zweygardt's work will be on displayed not only in the Gallery but on the TCAC sidewalk, where you’ll find one of Zweygardt's sculptures with the Tri-County Art Council logo.
Zweygardt possesses an uncanny ability to fuse dissimilar elements and concepts, natural occurring and fabricated forms, into structures that command the attention of the observer. This interaction of artist, nature and technology has a unifying effect on the observer's imagery and psyche.
Duplication and relationship are a recurring theme found throughout Zweygardt's work. A carefully chosen stone, cast, and duplicated in bronze, aluminum or steel becomes the basis of definite architectural themes that manifest in a range of sizes.
Zweygardt's mastery of the building process along with his ability to create enormous works of art from materials of tremendous mass has gained him international recognition and membership to the Berman Group, a cooperative of sculptors whose collective work spans virtually the entire spectrum of possibilities of "traditional" modernist sculpture.
Kansas born, Zweygardt earned a BFA degree from Wichita State in 1967. He received an MFA from the Maryland Institute of Art in 1969 and is an emeritus Professor of Sculpture at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Zweygardt works independently in his immense workshop in Alfred Station, New York. Here his work continues to evolve - varied shapes and rich surfaces, transparent and dense forms, concept, and technical relationships, personal and collective perceptions - into fine art of eminent legacy.
For more information on this and any other exhibits at the TCAC, visit www.tricountyartscouncil.org or call 716-372-7455. The Tri-County Arts Council has updated and reorganized their Artist Market and is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 12:00-6:00pm and Saturday from 12:00-5:00pm at 110 West State St in Olean.