Sculptor John Brickels creates a diverse group of buildings, machines, robots, pipes and claymobiles which are unified through their common medium -the monochromatic clay which infuses these sculptures with a gentle narrative and subtle humor. His falling barn sculptures, tittering urban row houses and collapsed rust-belt factories celebrate the hidden beauty of entropy. Claymobiles spring from a love/hate relationship with automobile culture, while machines are an off-shoot of the rust-belt culture of his childhood home and a fascination with the many armed, asbestos covered furnace that loomed in the basement. Robots are a desire to put a human face on his work and a nod to the anachronistic stylings of the steampunk movement.

16. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center
85 Church Street
(802) 863-6458
www.froghollow.org

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