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Exhibition Series
Perpetual Motion
Contemporary Interpretations of Fine Art Automata
Weds-Sat 3-7pm, thru May 14th

Heron Arts is pleased to present a group show of eleven national and international contemporary artists who create figurative, kinetic sculptures in the pursuit of compelling narratives. This will be the first gallery exhibition of contemporary fine art automata in the United States. Curated by Heron Arts director Noah Antieau and Atlanta-based automata artist Tom Haney, exhibiting artists were chosen based on their craftsmanship and lifetime dedication to this artistic medium. Exhibiting artists include: David Archer (AUS), Chris Fitch (USA), Nemo Gould (USA), Tom Haney (USA), Thomas Kuntz (USA), Pat Keck (USA), Richard Landon (USA), Paul Spooner (UK), and husband and wife collaborators Dean Lucker and Ann Wood (USA). Alongside the eleven automata artists will be San Francisco-based painter, David Marc Grant and his playful landscapes featuring smoke stacks and machinery. Through his work Grant opens a dialogue on geopolitical issues with colorful landscapes, structures and technology drawn from ideas of various utopian and dystopian fictions, drawing influences from the constructivist/supremacist movement, Persian miniaturists, op, pop, advertising, comics, science fiction films, and contemporary low-brow.
Made from a multitude of materials and encompassing a wide set of skills from sculpture and painting to mechanics and engineering, the selected artists create work that depicts human and animal figures in animated motion to achieve moving vignettes. This group of artists maintains an aesthetic of nostalgia while presenting contemporary subject matter.
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Works

Megalodon
Nemo Gould
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Hot Chilli Dog
David Archer
$8,000Inquire

Robotoil
Richard Landon
$5,400Inquire

The Little Reader
Paul Spooner
$7,500Inquire

Biodiversity
Paul Spooner
$10,000Inquire

The Crabby Abstractor
Dean Lucker and Ann Wood
$5,500Inquire

Stay
Dean Lucker and Ann Wood
$7,500Inquire

Happy Logman Eating Sugar
Dean Lucker and Ann Wood
$7,500Inquire

Topsy Curvy
Thomas Kuntz
$5,000Inquire

Racoon Hidey-hole #2
David Marc Grant
$800Inquire

Jawaharlal Meets Mr. Racoon
David Marc Grant
$800Inquire

Those Useless Trees #5
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Birdie Look-out
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Pop Rocks #2
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Magic Mountain #1
David Marc Grant
$110Inquire

Outpost
David Marc Grant
$150Inquire

Treepee
David Marc Grant
$800Inquire

Mound #1
David Marc Grant
$265Inquire

The Enchanted Sea
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Milecastle #1
David Marc Grant
$340Inquire

Growth Accelerator Diptych
David Marc Grant
$1,540Inquire

The Rain Machine
David Marc Grant
$1,400Inquire

Foxy Loxy and the Teepee
David Marc Grant
$800Inquire

Chesapeake Bay Outpost
David Marc Grant
$1,400Inquire

Observation Tower
David Marc Grant
$1,200Inquire

Island Fortress
David Marc Grant
$800Inquire

Fictitious Structure #14
David Marc Grant
$1,400Inquire

The Thing That Does Everything
David Marc Grant
$1,400Inquire

Gumball #1
David Marc Grant
$1,000Inquire

Extractor 1000
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Commuter #1
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Extractor 9000
David Marc Grant
$1,000Inquire

Cassiopeia
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Flower Bed #2
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Untitled
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Ficticious Structure #11
David Marc Grant
$1,400Inquire

Analog Zero Point Energy Machine
David Marc Grant
$500Inquire

Untitled (Cube)
David Marc Grant
$150Inquire