Wendell Castle Temptation
Price on request
Edition of 8 plus 4 AP
2014
Bronze
256 x 105 x 128 cm
100.8 x 41.3 x 50.4 in
Creating a sense of volume in his work was paramount to American artist Wendell Castle. He was able to achieve the broad curves of Temptation through first sculpting them in stack-laminated wood, a process he invented in search of a means to work on a larger scale. Now rendered in bronze, and supported on dynamic spires that erupt from the ground, Temptation is emblematic of the renewed vigour and creativity Castle achieved in the later stages of his career.
Artist
Wendell Castle
Born in Kansas in 1932, Wendell Castle received two degrees from the University of Kansas, one in industrial design in 1958 and the other in sculpture in 1961. He moved to Rochester, New York to teach at the School for American Crafts and established a permanent studio in the area that is still in operation today. He reinvented himself for nearly six decades.
