Another excellent post by talented art blogger Caleb De Jong, about one of the great underrated modernists.
“’No longer is heavenly distance the preferred escape. The learning self defends.’
What I am trying to say here is that with my work of the past eight years I have tried to make sculptures that evoke a spiritual disembodied state close to that of reverie; the kind of perfection that I found during my ‘revelations’ or ‘epiphanies’. I have avoided in my recent sculpture poetry directly tied to the imperfect, earthly world of flesh and matter. I have the need to be in and of that imperfect world again and make my poems from its stuff…” - Christopher Wilmarth
Christopher Wilmarth at Betty Cunningham Gallery