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John Bisbee
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About the artist
Of John Bisbee's recent New York City exhibition at Plane Space Gallery, The New Yorker (6/14/2004) Magazine noted: "Three tons of welded twelve-inch steel spikes sounds like a recipie for heavy-handed machismo. In Bisbee's hands, the spikes are transformed into objects of surprising grace - more Andy Goldsworthy than Richard Serra. "Grist" is like a bird's nest built with fragile straw filaments. The spikes in "Slack" are welded end to end, creating five dynamic, intersecting coils. "Scree" is a pileup of delicately constructed balls - like molecules, or perhaps, hollow maces - stacked almost to the ceiling in a corner. The gallery's wide garage door is left open in warm weather, attracting passersby who might not usually go to galleries but can't help entering after glimpsing the media-defying marvels inside."
