Scaled Up: Matt Devine and America Martin

Artists who create sculptural works on a large scale have to take into account the body, movement, and the relationship between the work and the environment in which it is placed. Whether flowing or linear, to appreciate fully such works must be seen from all angles, traversed and examined in situ. The process of creating works in this range offers new challenges of material and spatial considerations as well as the opportunity to test scale of production. Artists Matt Devine and America Martin who create work of various scope, produce large-scale sculptures as an extension of their practice, with scale and spatial concerns informing the formal considerations.

Order, simplicity, truth and harmony are some of the basic premises of minimalist sculpture. Although the powder coated aluminum and steel sculptures of Matt Devine feel too much alive to fall under the minimalist label, they very much exhibit many of these qualities. There is a harmony line that is echoed throughout his varied practice. Whether working in large or small scale, Devine manages to convey the duality of both quiet stillness as well as constant flux in compositions that echo patterns of oscillation and random variation. InWhere Will This Lead #2 Devine shows this duality through sheets of bent metal that appear weightless, their gently curving arcs emphasized by scale.