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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