Bontecaux’s

These works are a tribute to the Canadian Artist, Lee Bontecou. I came across her sculptural works of steel and fabric about twenty years ago, and was mesmerized by them. Something about the ominous presence of these holes, the dark nature of them, the ‘Space Age’ feeling, almost like jet engines.

Over the past few decades, I had began making works based on this idea of fabric stretched and stitched over a steel frame. The first works, a set of fish. However, in 2021 I began making more direct works around them. As her pieces seemed to have a language of parts, a hole, avent, a rib, I created my own language about them, and after making a few different works with this language, I began creating this series.

The result are these pieces: A tribute, in a language I evolved from the original works, but based around my interpretation of their strongest aspects.

821 Cafe
Richmond, VA
Nov 2024