Andrew McIntyre
Nature inspires me. I value the balance and contrast between things that occur spontaneously and those that are designed and engineered, parallel to the interaction between musical improvisation and composition, and between the unconscious and the conscious.
As a child I was first moved toward sculpture by a Henry Moore piece at the Portland Art Museum, then later by Giacometti, Brancusi, David Smith, and Arnoldo Pomodoro. My parents loved music and modern art, and I was surrounded by both from an early age. I played in school bands from age eight and was in groups into my twenties. I loved Stravinsky, Aaron Copeland, Debussy, Ravel, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, many others.
Similar to music, abstract design evokes a range of interpretations and responses. The drive to create emerges from an impulse to bring an idea into being, moving from concept into actuality. Creative work is most effective when it resonates within the person experiencing it as something personal yet universal, and I aim to touch that universality in my work.
I never wanted to dominate my materials -– instead, to collaborate, to participate with them. People making art and music, among other disciplines, have used structured randomness for millennia. I hesitate to potentially limit a viewer’s experience by referencing a specific origin or concept as inspiration.
I graduated from UC Berkeley, studying European and modern American, 17th Century Dutch, and ancient Chinese art history. M ... view more »
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Artist Type: Visual Arts: Sculpture
Artist Medium: Aluminum; Bronze; Powder Coat; Stainless Steel; Steel
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Artist Statement:
Ventana is Spanish for “window”. Through windows, we view things at a distance. They bring us light, fresh air, and vistas on the world. Like an empty water glass, windows are useful because of what isn’t there — their negative space — and the world comes to us through them. Windows are about breathing and perceiving, about bringing more of life into our lives.
Fresh air leads to wind — here, a warm, desert wind. Vision suggests distance — distance implies time — and the presence of motion through time and space. Flight, effortless gliding over land and sea.
Big Sur’s Ventana Wilderness is a stunning, majestic area of wood, wind and ocean. Wind blowing through the trees and across the surface of the water causes trees to sway and waves to stir.
This Ventana, inspired by wilderness, is the motion of warm winds, of fire and of heatwaves rising from the desert, of sunlight reflecting on lakes and off bright ocean waves. It is an open window.
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