Rory Burke

"Imagination (phantasia) made them," Appollonios answered, "a far wiser artist than mimesis, for mimesis will represent only what the eyes can see, but imagination will represent what they cannot... When you entertain the notion of Zeus you must, I suppose, envisage him along with heaven and seasons and stars, as Pheidias tried to do..."
Life of Apollonios of Tyana -Philostratos
Rory Burke's sculptures call attention to the dismembering and assemblage processes of thought and distend logic into a compendium focus. The observational faculties of our nervous constitution are acknowledged as severe in dimensional construction and to this we can understand our phrenological system with regard to its constituents lateral to the whole. The complexity of our mind simply ordered, methodically made manifest to suggest by observation and contemplation we obtain the reconfiguration of intelligence and wisdom. See 'Finite Space' at Thomas Masters Gallery. http://www.roryburke.net/RoryBurke/Press_release.html

Marino Marini

Charles Ray

I can't promise you an epiphany, but when I first saw Charles Ray's work, Conceptual Art made more sense to me. A 7 1/2 ton cube!?!?! what is it made of?!?!?!

Toy Fire Engine

Something tells me Larry David would like this

This is when it clicked for me. I think these are so neat. They appeal to my fascination with physics and so he interplays the simplicity of weight and friction with his own body. It's like a lonely playground with no equiptment, but a board. Simple yet genius.

Taking it one step further into the realm of danger.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Egyptian Sculpture

Italian Terra Cotta

Yoshitomo Nara Installations

Sarah Sze

Urs Fischer