Wood figure sculpture

Rory Menage, Leaning Half Figure I

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Gehard Demetz

Sculptor Tung Ming-Chin carves wood into figurative shapes that seem to press against the surface of the finished work. In “Inner Turmoil” a face and hands are trapped inside a hunk of wood that has the smooth, stretched appearance of fabric, and in “Breath”, the rounded spine and feet of a crouched figure expand outsideContinue reading "Objects and Figures Trapped Within Carved Wood Sculptures by Tung Ming-Chin"

a wooden sculpture of a woman's head, detailed carving into a block that was purposely assembled of different woods glued together, black ironwood for her face, cedar for her hair, Aspen for her blouse. --ar 2:3