Filaments By Niel Forrest

Gallery
March 3 - June 2, 2005

Neil Forrest creates large-scale sculptures that shape and define space. In Filaments, designed specially for the Rubin Center's L Gallery, steel cord connects small clay forms inspired by the woods and the sea near the artist's home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. One grouping hovers overhead, like a cloud of molecules made visible. The other lies on the floor reminiscent of life at the bottom of the ocean. Forrest uses a mixture of pure kaolin clays that permits firing at high temperatures and provides the strength needed to support tensile stress. In both aesthetic and process, Forrest overlays art with science in his quest to theoretically dissolve boundaries between objects and their surroundings, and between viewers and art.

Neil Forrest is professor of ceramics at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He earned his M.F.A. at Alfred University and his B.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Exhibition curated by Kate Bonansinga