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Estate Holdings
BigTown Gallery
is pleased to represent the following estates. Please click on the
links below to access pages with the pieces included in the
Estate. For further information regarding any of the pieces, please contact
the gallery.
Hugh Townley’s
inventive and individual wit was never far from the surface in his work
in wood relief and sculpture. Townley’s intricate assemblages of
band saw-cut shapes—reliefs and chains and boxes—rendered
in a variety of common and rare woods, such as mahogany, obiche, oak and
walnut—all employ the recurring, imaginative, and often whimsical
iconography of forms from nature that signify his work.
The grain of the wood, the marks left by the saw, and other natural imperfections
inform the design, and in combination, lend themselves readily to the
exploration and interpretation that is always evident in his work.
Access the Estate listing page for Hugh Townley here
Lawrence Fane (1933-2009)
Catalyzed by the drawings of early Renaissance artist-engineer Mariano Taccola, Lawrence Fane has said that, it is in his sculpture of the last decade that he has found his true work.
It is a work so deeply rooted in imagination that its hard-hewn physicality, at first, simply astonishes. As the viewer’s imagination grasps for the familiar, these machines never-before-given-form suggest by their sure and knowing lines an everyday utility that one might almost discover, given time.
Others, no less robust, express in an architecture otherworldly—yet still nearly familiar—a precise and delicate inter-dependability among parts and materials, one whose essential and enduring bond seems as emotional as it does physical.
Here medieval creations in mahogany’s waxy red seem to stand alone against the end of time, just as intricate dual constructions in butternut’s bruised pale express in touching symbiosis the impermanent physics of what is good, what is true.
Lawrence Fane’s work is in museums and private collections throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Italy, and London, He has exhibited as widely
More on Lawrence Fane here.
Harry Callahan (1912-1999)
More on Harry Callahan here.
Aaron Siskind (1902-1991)
More on Aaron Siskind here.