Contemporary Abstract
Category: ASSORTED PIECES – click on thumbnail to see full size image
Commission
96″ x 96″ x 96″
Carmal-orange painted steel
Winter’s Gift
Winter’s Gift
80” x 20” x 20”
Steel, plant, soil, paint
Most sculptures are inanimate. They are placed on pedestals, often in museums and in fine homes. This one is not inanimate. It is living. Something about it causes us to pause.
Why do we slow? Art awakens reflection, gets us thinking, stirs feeling. “Winter’s Gift” does that.
Martin Helldorfer
1936 —
LGBTQ+
Pride
Steel, acrylic, paint
14″ x 13″ x 8″
Many within the. LGBTQ+ community use a six striped rainbow flag to illustrate their cherished values. I’ve taken that flag with its six colors (red, orange, yellow green, blue and indigo) to sculpt another possible symbol of that diverse and valued community.
Affection–2
Affection–2
6″ x 7″ x 12″
Steel, paint
This sculpture mingles two hearts, a musical note, and color to slow and attract the gaze of those who pass as well as to note the linkage of music and love.
Children of war
The Child Among Debris
17″ x 14″ x 7″
Steel, art board, paint
Today’s news documents in word and image the bombings in war torn countries. Neighborhoods are leveled and thousands of families displaced. Tonight’s news was about Gaza. It is said that the number of children murdered exceeds the number of combatants.
All week I found myself cutting and welding together dozens of small squares to form a web of sorts in the shape of a ball. Using a laser I cut out the image of a child with outstretched arms, one hand holding flowers, the other a bird. I placed that image within the rounded ball that I had made. Then crushed it. This sculpture, a child among debris, is result. I find it striking.
Summer work
Summer work
Last summer my focus was largely on the fabrication of a large contemporary sculpture for a client. Attached are photographs that reflect the last stages of the work from powder coating to installation.
Affection
Holy Land
Chief Black Elk’s words, “The Holy Land is everywhere.” are cut from 1/2″ clear acrylic sheet, placed on a glass mirrored surface and weaved throughout a contemporary steel image.
24″ x 24″ x 12″
Glass, steel, acrylic
Burning Bush – 2
Burning Bush – 2
58” x 24” x 24”
Steel
The angel told Moses to remove his shoes as he approached a burning bush … not because the soil was hot but because it was holy. Chief Black Elk felt similarly. Remember, he mused, “The Holy Land is everywhere.”
This sculpture is my effort to be mindful of the sacredness of what we are about, however grand, valued or mundane.