Rusty
36"x18"x34"
stoneware, metal, wood
2007
Location: Exhibition at Union Station
Price: $5400

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STATEMENT
Brickels' "Claymobile" sculptures combine vintage toy pedal car/pedal tractor bodies and trompe l'oeil mechanicals sculpted from slab and extruded stoneware clay. Augmenting weathered toy pedal car and pedal tractor bodies with realistic components, Brickels blurs the line between adulthood and childhood. The viewer deciphers whether these sculptures are adult vehicles shrunk to a child's perspective or a child's toy amplified into an adult world.

BIO
John Brickels, has been creating stoneware clay sculptures for over 30 years. Recent work finds Brickels retrofitting vintage pedal car and pedal tractor bodies with stoneware engines, suspensions and mechanicals. This new series has garnered him national media coverage in Hemming's Classic Car magazine in 2007 and Car and Driver magazine in 2008. Brickels lives with his wife Wendy James in Essex Junction, Vermont. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts from the University of Akron in Ohio.

ARTIST CONTACT
(802) 878-6874
www.brickels.com
[EMAIL]

work also available at:
Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Centers
85 Church Street, Burlington
1 Mill Street, Middlebury
4716 Main Street, Manchester

Lazy Pear Gallery
154 Main Street, Montpelier

Vermont Artisan Designs
106 Main Street, Brattleboro

 

 

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