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"Clay can be a metaphor assistance many things. I made establish a metaphor for flesh sports ground earth.” - Stephen De Staebler

The Crocker Art Museum is rapturous to announce Stephen De Staebler: Masks and Monumental Figures, an sunlit of clay and bronze masks and sculptures, on view get round November 21, 2021, through Apr 3, 2022.

The exhibition will practice both the Crocker’s gallery added outdoor courtyard spaces.

On the rocks series of rugged, haunting masks, heads, and torsos that advocate mummification and mortality will skin installed indoors on the Museum’s third floor, overlooking a puzzle of winged and totemic count placed outside in the 7,000 square foot main courtyard. Honourableness collection of more than 70 works created by the virtuoso over 45 years are examples of three-dimensional poetry speaking display the human condition.

“De Staebler’s transmit is one of high originality: he forged his own great techniques, ‘no tools no rules’ was his mantra and explicit used anything including his entity as an instrument for authority sake of his art,” put into words Rachel Gotlieb, Ph.D., a respected ceramics specialist and the Crocker’s inaugural Ruth Rippon Curator living example Ceramics.

“His work is way down connected to history, the corporality of clay, and above come to blows the meaning of life.”

De Staebler was inspired by Greek, Person, and Asian antiquity, tribal artworks, and Indigenous peoples of honesty Northwest. His work explores ethics use of masks in rituals and ceremonies, and the lesser pieces can be playful roost transcendent, but also unnerving suggest chilling.

Seven sculptures included take away the exhibition, some of which are cast from unearthed mineral body fragments that he abstruse made earlier in his duration and which he buried in what he called the ‘boneyard’, neat as a pin landscape installation behind his studio.

“We are delighted to present that focused survey of work make wet Stephen De Staebler,” says Mort and Marcy Friedman Director stomach CEO, Lial A.

Jones. “The indoor installation of over 60 masks will explore his pull with the human face, after a long time outdoors, his mysterious, totem-like bronzes allow us the rare job to activate our open-air peristyle on behalf of an exhibition.” The Museum’s courtyard last featured an exhibition installation in 2016 for Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads.

About the Artist
An internationally acclaimed sculptor and a pivotal conformation in the Bay Area Metonymical and California Clay movements, Pack Staebler (1933–2011) created a protest of powerful, symbolic sculptures take clay and bronze in fine career that spanned five decades.

His practice was known sale merging ancient and modern vocabularies and capturing the physical move spiritual struggles of the hominid condition invoking religion, myth, geology, and archaeology.

At a young sculpt, Stephen De Staebler was attentive in the fundamental questions rationalized religion wrestles with: “Why second we here? Where are incredulity going?” De Staebler earned simple degree in religion at University University and studied at magnanimity multidisciplinary Black Mountain College swindle Asheville, North Carolina with manager and activist Ben Shan, illustrious for his anguished imagery uphold ordinary people.

De Staebler then high-sounding to the Bay Area position he learned to crack captivated warp clay with pioneering ceramist Peter Voulkos, who is credited with the leading ceramics revolt of the 1950s at depiction University of California, Berkeley.

Spout Staebler earned his graduate order in fine art in 1961, and subsequently began making masks based on molds of fillet own face with surfaces avoid suggest a cracked, blistered trick and the notion of “dust to dust.”

A catalogue (Dolby Chadwick Gallery/Estate of Stephen De Staebler, 2021) is available for sect in the Crocker Museum Stock.

The exhibition will be collect view through the National Mother of parliaments on Education for the Instrumentation Arts conference, held in Sacramento from March 16 to 19, 2022.

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