Artist Entry #15/sculptor #8 Martin Puryear

Artist Entry #15/sculptor #8 Martin Puryear

Martin Puryear is a minimalist sculptor artist, his work looks very simple but is very complex. He creates organic shapes that you would never see anywhere else. Martin received his B.A. from The Catholic University of America and also received a B.F.A. from Yale University, at a young age he learned how to build guitars and furniture and learned very early how to manipulate materials like wood. He works with a variety of mediums like wood, metal, wires and even tar.

His piece "Horsefly"(image with metal frame and transparent black skin) was very interesting to me, it reminded me of our armature with a skin project. The image is so abstract, but I can see why he called it Horsefly; when you look at it from the front the round opening looks like an eye of a fly and the black skin emphasizes that even more. He does go back and forth with geometric and abstract forms. His work is pretty consistent with the use of an armature.

I think his work is interesting because we learned about creating an armature and it shows where it can lead and what kind of work you can create with the armature.