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"...The most striking
feature of Mark Lindquist's wood sculptures is that they still have so
much of the tree in them. In Lindquist's case, it is this regard
which unites his crafts background and his interest in Japan: in both,
respect for material as itself has been acceptable.
It is Lindquist's not inconsiderable achievement to reveal this attitude
in his sculpture...."
-Janet Koplos
Mark Lindquist
Review in Art in America
By Janet Koplos
"... Lindquist
plays with the aesthetics of bent and contorted tree trunks, making cracks
a medium of expression which he enhances through a process of chiseling
and sanding. Instead of allowing technique and the craft aesthetic
to lead him to overly deliberated forms, he has achieved... a spirit of
collaboration with his chosen material, enhancing the age and contortion
of the tree trunks. The various sculptures in the series recall the
grand traditions of modernist art evident in the work of Brancusi and
Noguchi, among others, even though they cannot be construed in any way as
imitation of those earlier works...."
-Robert Hobbs
(Rhoda
Thalhimer Endowed Professor of American Art History, Virginia Commonwealth
University )
Mark Lindquist
Review in Sculpture
By Robert Hobbs
"... Lindquist's
profound respect for wood leads him to seek his goals through Buddhist
ideals... Lindquist remains the closest to the spirit of the tree.
He works with nature as did the sculptors of Ichiboku. He imposes no
unnatural sense of form, no metaphor and no figurative association.
His deep hatchet-like strokes across the surface release the inner dynamic
and allow the essential form
to be...."
-Josephine Gear
(Former Director of
the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris)
Mark Lindquist
Catalog essay from EIGHT
CONTEMPORARY SCULPTORS:
Beyond Nature, Wood Into Art -THE
LOWE ART MUSEUM
By Josephine Gear
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Mark Lindquist
ICHIBOKU GROUP
1990
Mongaku (left), Natabori (center), Yama Uba
(right)
Life Size (in situ - sculptures are approx. 6' H)
Installation, Gadsden
Arts Center, Quincy, FL
(Works on Loan)
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Mark Lindquist
Akikonomu
(Ichiboku Series)
1989
Cherry / Polychrome
73 1/2" H x 22"D
Collection of The Renwick
Gallery
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC
Gift of Jane and Arthur
Mason
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Mark Lindquist
Kino Kami II
(Ichiboku Series)
1992
Cherry / Polychrome
52" H x 34" W x 28"D
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Mark Lindquist
Ascending Ichiboku Column
(Totemic / Ichiboku Series)
1993
Pecan / Polychrome
70" H x 21" D
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Mark Lindquist
Hompashiki II
(Ichiboku Series)
1995
Cherry / Polychrome, Steel
58" H x 28" D (at base)
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Mark Lindquist
Atsumori
(Ichiboku Series)
1990
Pecan / Polychrome
62" H x 24" W x 24"D
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Mark Lindquist
Hompashiki I
(Ichiboku Series)
1992
Pecan / Polychrome
50" H x 26" W x 20"D
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Mark Lindquist
Natabori II
(Ichiboku Series)
1992
Cherry / Polychrome
64 1/2" H x 20"D
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Mark Lindquist with his
Ichiboku Sculptures.
A photo montage suggesting
relative scale.
Photo of Mark Lindquist - self-portrait taken
by Mark in his Quincy, FL photo studio circa 2005.
(Click
the image for a larger view)
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Mark Lindquist Uses special robotic equipment that he designs and
builds for special aspects of the making of his sculptures. Click on
the photo (left) to see Hompashiki II being made at Lindquist
Studios. |
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Click photo for more
information on the complete Ichiboku Series |
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