Angelic Crystal Column, Platinum, 2010
Richard MacDonald
Bronze
74" x 11" x 14.75"
Richard MacDonald American, b. 1946
Reflections of the Soul, 2022
Stainless Steel
Also available in Bronze. Price upon Request.
Also available in Bronze. Price upon Request.
108.25" H x 35 x 35
FML050NU
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The mirror reflects our varying and multiple parts of our life’s journey and being. The female figures act as twins uniting the left and right through the strands of hair. The reflective geometric columns are structures of the mind. Polished to depict ourselves and to include the observer. The ultimate final piece has a water wall obscuring reality through a thick veil of separation of past and present.
Figurative art is as old as mankind—seeking to understand and give form to our thoughts and feelings is as much what makes us human as our ability to speak. Taking this ancient impulse in a contemporary direction, Richard MacDonald has created a new work titled “Reflections of the Soul”.
The highly polished stainless-steel columns behind the sculpted female forms brings the viewer into the artwork. A subtle play of our own reflection dances across the smooth surface: like a kaleidoscope reflecting all the changeable facets of our nature.
Considered one of America’s greatest figurative sculptors, Richard MacDonald introduces his current body of work which explores the artist’s fascination with the mercurial quality of change and fluidity in our personalities.
Overtime we experience many events, take in many influences, and the character we develop reflects the impact life has had on us.
Rather than viewing the personality as fixed, this new work explores the left and right sides of ourselves...Sinistra e destra...ideas that are consistently in flux, like every growing, living thing in the natural world. Those familiar with the artist’s work will see new mediums used in innovative ways to express these new ideas.
The mirror reflects our varying and multiple parts of our life’s journey and being. The female figures act as twins uniting the left and right through the strands of hair. The reflective geometric columns are structures of the mind. Polished to depict ourselves and to include the observer. The ultimate final piece has a water wall obscuring reality through a thick veil of separation of past and present.
The sculpture stands eight and a half feet tall and is a major departure of other works of art from the artist.
