Sculptures by Jon Isherwood ~ netra

April 6, 2013

Sculptures by Jon Isherwood

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Prodigious builder

Jon Isherwood, born in 1960 in England, resides in US now. He used to study in Leeds College of Art, Leeds, England, and later got his B.A. with honors, Canterbury College of Art, Canterbury, England, M.F.A. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of New York at Plattsburgh.

Pyramid Hill

When he was studying at a middle school in Britain, he was eager to be an artist like Henry Moore. But later he assisted Anthony Caro, the heavy metal master, for 15 years, traveled around the world and finally settled down in the United States. To escape the influence of Anthony Caro, he began working with concrete and stone, which was probably due to his fondness of Henry Moore. In early 1980s, after the success of his first exhibition in the United States, Isherwood became a professional sculptor. Plain and simple, Isherwood is fascinated with the expression and feeling that clay provides as it is shaped by the hand. First he makes a clay form, the rotation of which reminds us of turned pottery. This makes Isherwood’s sculptures different from the pure Abstract Expressionism of Bruce Beasley and Kenneth Snelson while being more closely related with traditional handicraft. Then he scans the clay forms into the computer and transforms it into a digital model in virtual space. Attached planes or embossed continuous patterns (e.g. water waves or incised lines) by 3DMAX to the surface of the model, and the plane patterns will automatically vary in density on the surface. The sculpture thus becomes a combination of random manual form and digital accuracy, expressing the sensibility of life fused with the rationality of technology, traditional handicraft fused with digital information.