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You will want to touch them, these sculptures. They have a certain textural appeal; a seeming invitation is offered to stroke their alternating pits and smooth bits, the patterns they form in aluminum and steel.
You might want to ask Good Citizen Gallery owner Andrew James if he’ll let you cop a feel. At the opening reception for Biotextural Landscapes, the artist, Craig Wedderspoon, allowed us to gently palpate his work. The metal was cool, in more ways than one.
Wedderspoon, an associate professor of art at the University of Alabama, shared a couple of enlightening comments with L/L, too. He told us that these massive sculptures are actually, by his standards, on the small size. He prefers to work in what you might call “heroic scale."
He also said that he lets the material dictate “where it wants to go next.” It’s about the process, then, as much as the product. That’s groovy, baby—and also, “biotextural,” if you will.
Photographs by Byron Kerman
