Anne Lilly
Anne Lilly, This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable, 2006
stainless steel, 36” x 11 ½” x 11 ½”
Lent by the Artist, Courtesy Arden Gallery
Anne Lilly’s participatory kinetic sculptures create complex and compelling spatial and formal relationships from straightforward materials and simple systems. Through precise engineering, the artist transforms inert and lifeless industrial materials into objects that move with a grace and seeming intention more organic than mechanical. Steel rods become fronds, legs, tentacles, and branches, brought to life by the touch of museum visitors.
Lilly is interested in a type of motion that is lyrical and gentle. The rods sweep through space, and move together and come apart in ways that suggest choreography. The poetic nature of this movement is underscored by fleeting magical moments of proximity and intermeshing, by the silence of the moving parts, and by each sculpture’s beautifully crafted surface and proportions. —
Nick Capasso, Curator
“I work with movement because I have questions that do not occur in words: questions about space, about material moving in space, and about the intermingling of space and object. I feel that space disguises itself and its nature by its transparency. It is, strangely, this very transparency that makes space opaque to our awareness.
These works use skinny lines moving in space. Emptying out the volume reduces the visual mass so that more of the area around the work gets implicated in what the work finally is. The space shares in creating, or manifesting, the function of the work itself. This emptying-out of the mass makes it possible to imbue space without occupying space.” — Anne Lilly
Anne Lilly will present an Artist Talk on Saturday, July 14 at 3 pm.
Anne Lilly will be the Guest Artist for the Eye Wonder Family Program on Sunday, June 24, drop-in from 1 - 3 pm.
