The Palo Alto Art Center is about to host an installation by Patrick Dougherty, who will be in residence here for three weeks beginning on January 11. I’ve seen his work before, several years ago at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, and liked it. If you’re in the Bay Area, you may have seen Dougherty’s sculptures at the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausolito.
The PAAC’s press release quotes a critic who calls him “the Jackson Pollack of sculpture,” an opinion I don’t share because I think Dougherty is much more interesting. Just because two artists have a similar use of line doesn’t mean their intentions or results are similar.
The installation will apparently be up for a year, and during the three weeks he’s in residence, there are tie-in activities, at least for kids. Adults who want to learn to make sculptures out of twigs might not be in luck.
It seems to be my week for environmentally interesting art. A friend posted a link to this page of Areca Roe’s website on Facebook. Wow. She has found the visual language to express so much of what I feel about the relationship between wildness and us. Hence her new spot on my blogroll.
Sermons in Stones 
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January 6, 2011 at 5:26 pm
sorrygnat
wonderful artist!!!!
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January 6, 2011 at 5:59 pm
the organic artist
This is a wonderful artist, I’m going to try and make it. I would love to be enveloped by one of these sculptures! My emphasis has been on organic art for the last 2 years, people have tagged me the organic artist because of the look of my work. I am actually inspired by time and layering in nature, like the strata on the side of a mountain wall.
Thnx for bringing this talented artist to our attention!
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