creation as a profession
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Site-Specific: 20 Years of Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay book, text by Joyce Audy Zarins
Newburyport Literary Festival 4/21/2021. Also available on fb 
Passage to Freedom, steel, found objects, fabric, paint. 2019, Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay. photo: Egils Zarins
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sculpture
"The fine craftsmanship in Optimism, by Joyce Audy Zarins, is evident in the smooth, graceful bronze bird-like form, offering the viewer a flight of fancy, and an uplifting experience."
-- Judge’s statement by Jack Becker, Sixth Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition catalogue, Winterhaven, FL (More.)
"The fine craftsmanship in Optimism, by Joyce Audy Zarins, is evident in the smooth, graceful bronze bird-like form, offering the viewer a flight of fancy, and an uplifting experience."
-- Judge’s statement by Jack Becker, Sixth Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition catalogue, Winterhaven, FL (More.)
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Optimism. fabricated bronze, black Zimbabwe granite, 75" x 14" x 14" / 190 x 36 x 36 cm, 2005, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME. photo: Egils Zarins
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small works
"When "Micro-Monumental" works -- and it's often enough to make a visit worthwhile -- it's when the art's size is intrinsic to its subject, material or both. It's when the dimensions feel necessary, rather than a gimmick by artists who normally work on a grander scale. Examples include …. Joyce Audy Zarins's "Wheat, the American Staple," in which a painted-plaster tower of trompe l'oeil crackers simultaneously mock and pay homage to ideas of national pride."
Thinking Small Has Diminishing Returns, Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post, Friday, May 5, 2006, page WE41. (More.)
"When "Micro-Monumental" works -- and it's often enough to make a visit worthwhile -- it's when the art's size is intrinsic to its subject, material or both. It's when the dimensions feel necessary, rather than a gimmick by artists who normally work on a grander scale. Examples include …. Joyce Audy Zarins's "Wheat, the American Staple," in which a painted-plaster tower of trompe l'oeil crackers simultaneously mock and pay homage to ideas of national pride."
Thinking Small Has Diminishing Returns, Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post, Friday, May 5, 2006, page WE41. (More.)
Wheat, the American Staple. painted plaster, 3 .75” x 2 .25” x 1 .5” / 9.5 x 6 x 4 cm 2006.
photo: Egils Zarins
photo: Egils Zarins
environmental
The interdisciplinary Global Forces Spiral bonded science with art. Two opposing spirals separated by a line suggested the worldwide ocean current gyres north and south of the Equator. (More.)
The interdisciplinary Global Forces Spiral bonded science with art. Two opposing spirals separated by a line suggested the worldwide ocean current gyres north and south of the Equator. (More.)
Global Forces Spiral. Stone spiral - 30' x 30' / 9.1 x 9.1 m, shoreline, 30 sea kayakers, Dimensions variable, 1995.
Seacoast Science Center, Rye, NH. photo: Bill Hoyt
Seacoast Science Center, Rye, NH. photo: Bill Hoyt
evidences
"The steel piece with its fractal outline and inner fractal rings is based on the actual outline of a large tree, but it's set on its side. So it stands upright in an unusual way, and it provides a unique view, a different point of view, an impetus for looking at things newly and freshly."
- Merrill Kaitz."Magic at the Millyard," Amesbury News, September 27, 2002
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"The steel piece with its fractal outline and inner fractal rings is based on the actual outline of a large tree, but it's set on its side. So it stands upright in an unusual way, and it provides a unique view, a different point of view, an impetus for looking at things newly and freshly."
- Merrill Kaitz."Magic at the Millyard," Amesbury News, September 27, 2002
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depictions
Conceptual space is an interesting starting-off point. If I draw my reflection and include the mirror and the stool it is propped against is the image still two dimensional? (more)
Conceptual space is an interesting starting-off point. If I draw my reflection and include the mirror and the stool it is propped against is the image still two dimensional? (more)
earth flag
Art has the potential power to positively affect people's behavior and understanding of the world in times of political or cultural duress. (more.)
Art has the potential power to positively affect people's behavior and understanding of the world in times of political or cultural duress. (more.)
