Albert Paley
Albert
Paley is a Philadelphia born
sculptor born in 1944. He is best known for his contemporary sculptures that
are usually made of steel and then painted. His best known work is large scale
public works. There is an aspect of his work that was made famous by Hollywood as
well.
Albert
is sort of bipolar in the way he makes work. Some of his works are black patina
steel color and look just like the steel in its natural form. I like this
because it lets the black smith elements realy shine through. This especially
looks great on the solid steel he bends into twirls and loops and accentuates
the taffy like quality steel has when heat is applied. This is the style he
uses to make his functional work. He makes very high end very expensive tables
and benches and candle holders from steel.
The
other side of Paley’s work is his public pieces. He tends to make these large
scale steel works pop in whatever urban setting they happen to be going into
for installation. The pop that these sculptures give their new home is of color. These large works are often
bright and interesting in the pallet that he chooses. Sometimes they will be
one solid color like the red piece called “Regeneration” in Iowa.
One
of the big batman movies that way made a few years ago had some of his designs
in it and he didn’t even know until he saw the movie. What happened was some of
the visual set design staff had stolen his shapes and design ideas and used it
as their own. It was so uncanny that he sued universal studios and won.
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