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events calendar: Matter + Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler
55 of De Staebler's work on display at the de Young Museum
San Francisco, CA:
de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 → Google™ Maps
Saturday January 14, 2012 - Sunday May 13, 2012
For more than 50 years, Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011) created figurative sculptures primarily from clay—a medium derived from the primordial earth. Drawing inspiration from fundamental childhood experiences with nature, a transformative adolescent encounter with mortality, and adult studies in the histories of art and religion, he explored and extended a tradition of human representation that includes the religious monuments of ancient Egypt, the Renaissance humanism of Michelangelo’s finished and unfinished figures, and the modern existentialism expressed in the works of Alberto Giacometti. Matter + Spirit, installed in the American art galleries, includes 55 of De Staebler’s works.
From http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/matter-spirit-sculpture-stephen-de-staebler
"Blue Face With White Stripe," porcelain and pigmented stoneware.
Photo courtesy of Philip Ringler
Published by Savina Carluccio
