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Bruce Beasley is one of the foremost sculptors on the West Coast. His interests in natural science and technology inspire him to construct dynamic sculptures which simultaneously expand into and envelop space. He achieves this through the repetitive use of planar crystalline forms acting as building blocks for the complex structures. His conceptions and designs are aided by a sophisticated, three-dimensional computer program that enables him to experiment with variations of an idea before actually building the components. Beasley created numerous stainless steel works like Dorion during the 1980s. Since then he has been making works in bronze based upon simple structures like the cube.
Bruce Beasley was born in Los Angeles in 1939. From 1959 to 1962, he studied sculpture at the University of California, Berkley whose faculty at the time included artists Jacques Schnier, Wilfred Zogbaum, and Peter Voulkos. Throughout his career, Beasley experimented with and continues to explore various sculptural mediums ranging from cast aluminum to Lucite to bronze to granite to wood. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, participated in group shows, and is represented in museum collections throughout the United States and Europe including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY; Musee d'Arte Moderne, Paris, France; National Museum of American Art, Washington DC; Staditische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; to name a few. In 2005, the first retrospective exhibition of Beasley's work was held at the Oakland Museum of California.
More information on this artist can be found at www.brucebeasley.com. |
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Dorion, 1986
stainless steel
240" x 360" x 120"
Courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc.
Photo: Ricardo Barros.com |
