Floyd Gompf
Full Use Sculpture
Green and Yellow
51" High, 45" Long, 16" Deep
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Floyd Gompf's journey into the world of sculptural furniture wound meticulously through representational perspective drawing and ceramics. Floyd worked in hand-built and slab rolled clay and fiberglass molds and then concrete to create both functional and non-functional sculpture before deciding that furniture was his passion. Floyd switched mediums to make larger shapes and be rid of the constraints of the kiln. His eye stretched beyond the softness of clay, the hardness of concrete to the multilayered surfaces of junk piled wood. Surfaces with decades of distressed paint telling tales of other lifetimes. By adding and subtracting to these surfaces laden with stories deeply ingrained for sometimes more than a century, he has artfully constructed a body of work that transforms the materials and the viewer. His current works have the same silhouettes that he sought to create in clay. The objects are visually lyrical, whimsical, dynamic and ultimately beautiful. Floyd works in the tradition of the craftsman and sculptor and in the end his miracle is that his creations are then available for use. It is craft and art merging in exploration. Does their function inhibit their art? Not at all. It adds to the legitimacy of the pieces. The sculpture is clear. Neither the function nor the art is obscured or inhibited. Floyd's work has been shown extensively in the East and Midwest. This is his first exhibit in the Los Angeles area. |
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 Chair 3' High, 4' Long  Blue Yellow Red Sidetable 37" High 53" Long 15" Deep The price list and pictures from the exhibition are available here. |
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Opening March 20, 1999 |
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