Contributing Artists - Carlton Newton

Artist's Bio:

Carlton Newton received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the San Francisco Art Institute followed by teaching stints at Princeton University, the College of William & Mary and the University of Richmond. He is currently on the Faculty of the Sculpture Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he teaches courses in studio sculpture, contemporary art criticism, and video and computer technology. He has exhibited widely, including The New Museum in New York, The American Academy in Rome, The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and the Virginia Museum. He has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the American Academy in Rome Prize in Sculpture and a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship.

Artist's web site:
http://users.vcu.org/~crnewton/cnewton.html

Artist's Statement:

Carlton Newton writes of his work that he "would like to develop a language of sculptural form in which time and motion can enter into the life of the piece with the same ease and authority as do the cultural references of image, and the physicality of object." Using movable template systems fabricated in wood, sheet metal, or forged steel, Mr. Newton manipulates fluid gypsum cement to sweep out volumetric masses in space. His invention of systems and their operations gives rise to complex and unpredictable sculptural forms. The metaphors that emerge in these works derive from the record of movement, the logic of cause and effect, and the kinesthetic components of gesture.

Technical Description:

This piece exists entirely in virtual space.