Herald staff
The artist who created the large scale sculpture titled “Middle Fork,” which hangs in the lobby of the Seattle Art Museum, is coming to Everett to talk about his work.
John Grade will speak at 11:30 a.m. July 19 at the Schack Art Center. Grade plans to share his process for completing field work, collaborating with large groups of people, and creating public art with an emphasis on dislocation.
He’ll also share highlights from current projects in progress, including a new large-scale kinetic sculpture in the Arctic based on a landform of earth-covered ice called a “pingo” that will incorporate augmented or “mixed reality” holograms.
John Grade Studio is located in Seattle, where he creates large and small-scale sculptures that are exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and outdoors in urban spaces, sculpture parks and nature. The projects are designed to change over time and often involve large groups of people beyond his team to build and install.
Recent and upcoming project venues include the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; the 2017 Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland; the Arte Sella Sculpture Park in Trento, Italy; the Seattle Art Museum; Seattle Tacoma International Airport; Portland State University; the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh; the U.S. embassy in Guatemala City and the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.
“Middle Fork” echoes the contours of a Western hemlock. Beginning with a full plaster cast of the living tree, the artist and volunteers used the mold to recreate the tree’s form out of thousands of pieces of reclaimed old-growth cedar.
Disintegration
A lecture by artist John Grade is 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 19 at the Schack Art Center, 2921 Hoyt Ave., Everett. Tickets are $10. More at www.schack.org.
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