Bronze Still Life Tan 18

Bronze Still Life Tan 18

Bronze Still Life Tan 18
Bronze Still Life Tan 18
ONE OF A KIND

Bronze Still Life Tan 18

Mixed-Media Wall Sculpture (ID: A181015)
Designed by Alice McLean
$600
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This mixed-media wall sculpture is a still life: a study in color, composition and texture. Measuring 9" x 9", it's a unique bronze construction that's welded, machined, and oxidized with a hot process patina. To create each one-of-a-kind piece, the artist uses found objects such as antique glass, stone, and ceramic beads including clay spindle whorls from Ethiopia, upcycled glass from Bali and Ghana, Venetian glass, and Guru beads from Tibet.

Each ships gift boxed with an artist statement card and list of specific beads used in the work.
  • Ready to hang, wired
  • One-of-a-kind piece
  • Signed by the artist
  • Materials: Beads, Bronze
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Alice McLean

Alice McLean

McLean Bronze
"Jack McLean (1953-2017), with whom I shared my life and studio for almost 40 years, taught me to let the elements of metal, chemical, and fire guide my process. The dialogue begins when the bronze inspires me and then resists me. It continues as I impose my design ideas on the metal, and when the metal leads me another way. I must be ready to let the story change as the transformation of metal and the alchemy of patina happens. Just when I feel rudderless and the whole undertaking seems ready to collapse, Jack and the materials "speak," and I find my voice."

Each bronze wall tile is approached as a still life—a study in color, composition, and texture. The bronze dory is a sculptural antidote to all things with parallel lines and right angles. The shape provides stillness and calm.

Alice McLean uses an arc welder, band saw, abrasive discs, and gas propane torch to cut, join, and transform bronze sheet. Strong oxidizers such as cupric acid, *ferric:Ferric, Ferrous* nitrate, and tannic oxide, are brushed or spayed onto the prepared bronze surface and manipulated with flame to create rich and complex patinas.

Alice McLean's aesthetic education began when she studied literature at National College of Education. She began learning how to express thoughts through art—in direct and abstract ways—when she started working alongside her husband, the sculptor Jack McLean. His mastery of metalwork and patinas established the foundation for her own exploration and innovation.