The Boston Harbor Shipyard will be hosting an international outdoor sculpture show this winter, and “Apogee” is among the works chosen for exhibit.
Hummer at Karl Hummer
Posted December 4, 2009 by karlsaliterCategories: sculpture art, stone sculpture
Last Spring, I did a series of toys in granite, this black Hummer among them.
Here it is at Karl Hummer in New Canaan, dropped off last week:
Trip to North Carolina.
Posted October 5, 2009 by karlsaliterCategories: Uncategorized
I was invited to a show at the Imperial Center for Arts and Sciences in Rocky mount, NC.
http://www.imperialcentre.org/
So last week, I seriously overloaded my truck, and went down to deliver “Particle/Wave” for a year lease.
They had an excellent crane, and the piece weighed in at 4700 pounds. I love my little trailer! I was very scared going down, even though it was only from Charlottesville, VA, where the lease was over at Artinplace.
Sculpture in the air moves me.
Wood Home for Dear Friends
Posted September 28, 2009 by karlsaliterCategories: Functional Art, art, outdoor sculpture, sculpture art, stone sculpture
Last week I put a wood home nto the truck and brought it to
the home of my dear friends Diane and Joel. Diane is a potter of some renown, Joel an excellent painter and sculptor.
We had a fun time loading the home. It is one of two, and at 3×5x4, together they contain a cord of wood.
“Air Over Water”, Korea, Haslla Museum, 2009
Posted September 17, 2009 by karlsaliterCategories: Uncategorized
I just got this rather interesting (I think) image from the restaurant at Haslla Museum, overlooking the piece I made there last month.
Must admit, as much as I love my cooking and our beautiful kitchen, I seriously miss the five star Korean meals there.
Write-up in “Artscope” magazine.
Posted September 11, 2009 by karlsaliterCategories: art, art criticism, large scale sculpture, outdoor sculpture, public art, sculpture art, stone sculpture
Tags: abstract, art, artscope magazine, Kohl Childrens Museum Outdoor Sculpture Art, landscape, large-scale, Linda Chestney, Mill Brook Gallery, outdoor, outdoor sculpture stone steel natural ecological green, rocks, sculpture outdoor abstract contemporary art
Linda Chestney spotted “Ground of Being” at the Mill Brook Gallery in Concord, New Hapmshire, and included it in the September issue of “Artscope”.
Here’s what she said:
“Not to be missed is “Ground of Being”, a primal, evocative stone piece by Karl Saliter of Cornwall, CT, whose work appears in galleries and sculpture gardens worldwide. Something about this piece just makes you smile. Nearly 100 steel rods reach skyward from a base of stone to a height of three or more feet, with most well over seven feet high. Every one of them “blooms” with a large, flat rock the size of a pancake at their apex. To add to the whimsical presentation, in a breeze they sway lazily, calling us to enjoy the day. While Saliter appreciates the playful quality of (some of) his works, he describes his relationship to stones as reverential. As he creates these pieces that connote growth or motion, he sees himself as serving the stones.”
Bravo to Artscope, and many thanks to Mill Brook Gallery, and Linda Chestney!
Haslla Museum Installation, Korea, August, 2009.
Posted August 26, 2009 by karlsaliterCategories: art, art criticism, large scale sculpture, outdoor sculpture, public art, sculpture art, stone sculpture
Tags: sculpture natural environmental
Just in Inchon, preparing to fly home. Here are photos from my work in Korea.
Wrapping it up in the studio yesterday, almost ready for a lift.
First Backhoe arrives to save the day, before being sent home: sculpture apparently too heavy. It was kind of fun watching the backhoe lifting itself up onto three wheels, trying to grab the piece.
Second backhoe, stronger, arrived shortly after.
Also got spanked.
Crane time.
I love cranes. I love cranes and Bobcats. Leaving from my beautiful temporary studio to the site:
Nice Site! To flip the piece, it became important to balance it on its nose.
I hadn’t thought to build for that contingency: glad it held.
Time to head home.
New Cube to be Treed on Earth Day
Posted August 21, 2009 by karlsaliterCategories: Uncategorized
I was very happy to hear from Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, WI, that they are going ahead with my desire to have a tree planted in this cube form I built at a residency there earlier this month.
A child will plant the tree, as the secret door I built into the cube can only fit a child. The kid will be whoever wins an essay contest, and they’ll get a small sculpture into the bargain.
I’m very excited to see leaves peeking out from the stones in the coming years!
Just completed Cube to get Tree planted inside this April
Photo courtesy of Peninsula School of Art.
Wow.
Posted August 4, 2009 by karlsaliterCategories: Uncategorized
I just got an email from Keith Tomlinson at the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens. He sent these two images of a piece moved there last Fall, after a show in Charlottesville, VA. I hadn’t seen where they put it, or how it was installed. I love this!
New York Times Write Up!
Posted August 2, 2009 by karlsaliterCategories: Uncategorized
The New York Times just wrote up the Luther Barn Residency and the Wassaic Project. An installation I did with my friend Joel Schapira is in the slideshow.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/28/arts/20090729_WASSAIC_SLIDESHOW_7.html
The canoe below is installed, it will be part of a collaboration in the same show with Benjamin Stabler. I titled it “Emergency Escape Vehicle”.
