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Charles Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce our first
solo show of internationally exhibited Bay Area sculptor
Cedric Wentworth. This show also includes the artists' bold,
forceful paintings that are often described as sculpture
in oil on canvas.
Working in bronze and steel, the work is usually of significant
proportions for public and larger open spaces. These confirm
Wentworth's commitment to making relevant, distinct and what
are predicted to be important contributions to the development
of post-modern sculpture, according to Edward Lucie Smith
in his catalog essay on Cedric. New examples in this exhibition
display a departure from those larger sized pieces and as
such, permit a more accessible and intimate experience.
A unique feature of this show is that the gallery is scheduling
tours of the artists' studio, located a short walk away from
SF's new Third St. "T" rail line. We invite viewers
to experience first-hand, five ton and twenty foot high large-scale
pieces that can't be shown at the gallery, facilitating fuller
appreciation of their importance and size. Tour hours and
dates will be announced on our website and can also be made
by appointment.
The focus of Wentworth's sculpture and paintings is the human
figure, making them completely appropriate for this gallery,
and insofar as they represent an evolution of Bay Area figurative
work. Paintings are exhibited in our upstairs gallery space
and sculptures will be on the street level. The studio tours
will not include paintings.
Cedric Wentworth was born in 1966 in San Francisco. At 15
he apprenticed with granite-carver and bronze-sculptor Richard
O'Hanlon and at 16 won Best in Show for figurative bronze
casting at the Mill Valley Arts Fair. He continued studies
in marble carving at Cacciatori Studies in Italy, which specialized
in figurative stone carving. He later became assistant studio
master at the Paolicci Studios in Rome.
Wentworth left Italy in 1988 to live and work in New York
City. He returned to the Bay area in 1991. Since then he
has received public commissions in the US and Japan and his
work is featured in museums collections. "Jacob's Ladder",
26 feet tall and 7 tons of steel and bronze, is permanently
installed at the Crocker Museum and "Cubic Composition" was
purchased in 2004 and installed in the sculpture garden of
the Oakland Museum.
Cedric Wentworth's Artist's
Page
Introductions
2006 Exhibition
Artist’s
Web Site
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