WEEK FIVE, OCT 28 , Lee Imonen
Lee C. Imonen’s recent public sculpture is rich in references
to nature, architecture and technology, myth, and the artist’s
memories of childhood stories. Broadly cultural as well as personal,
Imonen’s sculpture is also art historical, relating not only
to 20th-century Modernist practice from Constructivism to di Suvero,
but also to the Romantic cult of the ruin. His work, in short,
is richly indexical to a wide variety of visual, narrative, and
even subliminal texts. Combining the monumental and the personal
allows Imonen to transcend the limits of public art as frequently
defined. Recent cases in point are two huge and dramatic works
completed during the past four years in Oregon. Sampo (2003), on
the capitol grounds in Salem, and La Grande Weir (2006), on the
campus of Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, are myth-evoking
structures made of wood, belted and bolted with metal.
http://www.leeimonen.com/
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