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Len Fury

“One must always maintain one’s connection to the past, and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.”—Bachelard, French philosopher/poet

 

When I start to create a sculpture, holding a found object or an especially beautiful piece of wood, I am driven by a desire to forge connections. I believe that all of life is connected; the mystery is how.  The essence of connectedness inspires my work, as I juxtapose seemingly different concepts—abstract forms with the classical human form, the present with the past.

For years I have shamelessly raided flea markets, antique stores, meadows and city streets looking for objects that intrigue me. I have also found or created human forms—ears, faces, limbs--and cast them in bronze. Many of the found objects were made to last, but discarded when styles and inventions changed. 

To me they remain important reminders of our history, evoking emotion and memory. They inspire me to create a three-dimensional poem of contrasts, metaphors that evoke that mysterious place somewhere between the physical and the subconscious worlds.

I regard my sculptures as a form of storytelling.  Every piece has meaning to me.  I hope that each one inspires a story in the imagination of the person who looks at it, because I consider the viewer an essential participant in the storytelling mystery.  This collaboration, between artist and viewer, is the ultimate and most rewarding connection of all.
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BIOGRAPHY

 

Born October 6, 1939 in College Point, Queens (New York City)

Education

High School of Art and Design, New York City

School of Visual Arts (on scholarship from New York Society of Illustrators)

Penland School  2003 “Objects of Desire” with Peter Pierobon

Penland School 2004 “Casting & Moldmaking” with Nancy Worden

Odyssey House, “Moldmaking the Human Figure”

with Nan Smith

Galleries

The Greene Gallery, Guilford, Connecticut

Forum Gallery, New York City

            Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville North Carolina

Exhibitions

July 2000:  One-man show, The Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, Connecticut

Winter 2000-2001:  Group show, Forum Gallery, New York City

June 2001:  “Box Party” show featuring five assemblage artists,

 The Greene Art Gallery

March 2003: Group Show, The Flinn Gallery,

Greenwich Connecticut

January 2006:  “New x 3” group show,

Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville NC

June 2006:  Juried Mountain Sculpture Exhibition,

The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, UNCA Kellogg Center,

Hendersonville NC

April 2007:  “Subject: Object” group still life

Show, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery

August 2007:  One-man show, Upstairs Artspace,

Tryon North Carolina

Collections

Permanent collection, Martin E. Segal (Chairman emeritus Lincoln Center, NYC)

Edward & Vanessa Fischer, West Sussex, England
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