Lawrence Fane
Show at BigTown

The BigTown Gallery in Rochester will present "Form Follows Fantasy," sculpture and drawings by Lawrence Fane from July 21-Aug. 26. There will be an opening reception Saturday, July 21 from 5-7 p.m. at the gallery on North Main St.

Catalyzed by the drawings of early Renaissance artist-engineer Mariano Taccola, Fane has said that it is in his sculpture of the last decade that he has found his true work.

Gallery owner Anni Mackay notes that, "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 suggests by their sure and knowing lines an everyday utility that one might almost discover, given time."

Mackay adds that, "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."

Fane’s work is exhibited widely and collected in museums throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Italy, and London.

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