Artist Biography
John Newman makes rich, complicated sculpture. He brings materials and techniques used by local artisans from around the world to make concentrated and intricate objects. Sisal and bark, braided copper wire, and rice paper and paste are fashioned into substantial, aggregated forms. “He is impelled by and urges his viewers to consider, ‘an intimate rapport with objects.'”
Newman’s drawings and prints compress the role of drawing and sculpture. Like Piranesi’s visionary architecture, he depicts illusionistic spaces and forms that defy physical laws. In his first visit to Shark’s in December 2002, Newman made two lithographs, Bluish Free Fall and Rusty Curtain Lecture and a group of hand-colored monotypes.
Selected Collections: Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, Boston, MA; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; National Gallery of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Prints by the Artist
